Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deteriorate, but in the process they use up oxygen. Within two or three weeks there is so much carbon dioxide in the air that the ripening process slows practically to a halt. Trouble is, the controlled atmosphere has to be carefully checked; too much CO2 can also harm the fruit. A second trouble is that once the warehouse is opened to remove a load, the whole process has to be started once more...
Right from the start, Bedrosian was so pleased with Tectrol's promise that he wanted to manufacture it for use with home refrigerators. But Whirlpool salesmen said no-it should be used by commercial fruit and vegetable growers. The housewife, they argued, would never go for it. Kutty remains unconvinced. Soon, if he has his way, food in the home refrigerator will be competing for longevity with the navy bean, which is still edible after 20 years of dry, cool storage...
Namier was scathingly contemptuous of ideologies that aimlessly attacked tradition, and in a series of brilliant essays showed how easily they led to totalitarianism. "Liberty." he wrote, "is the fruit of slow growth in a stable society.'' Wars and revolutions that keep society in turmoil prevent liberty from taking root...
...songs, called "catches," depend for their spice on stout voices singing the lyrics alternately. As the lyrics interweave, words overlap and innocent verses yield bright fruit: a catch that begins "He tickled her fancy and told her his tale" is sure to come out "And he fancy-tickled her tail." Jonathan Swift was an eager catch lyricist, but the biggest tease of all was Henry Purcell, the saintly master of the High Church hymn. After hours, Purcell forsook cantatas in favor of catches and "hockets"-a trick of song in which a voice may boldly interject one word...
...interruption of commodity shipments. In New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, as sugar refineries ran out of raw sugar, 1,500 workers faced layoffs; on the East Coast refined sugar prices were about to be raised to a 40-yr. high of $10 per 100 lbs. The United Fruit Co., whose great white fleet is a major prop of more than one Latin American economy, managed to get some of its banana ships unloaded under court order. Even so, bananas began to run short in neighborhood markets, and housewives who succeeded in finding some paid...