Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frost-kissed oranges, which turn dry and mealy, can be picked fast enough, they can still be used for concentrated orange juice. But the branches are brittle, the pickers' fingers are numb, and an orange that falls may well be too damaged to ship as fresh fruit...
...full damage to the orange crop will not be known for several weeks. Unlike much of the frigid U.S., Florida's crop growers would actually like the chilly weather to continue. A sudden flood of warm sunshine would accelerate the rotting of damaged fruit and increase the loss far beyond the $125 million already estimated. "All we need is a few days in the 80s," says Grower Karst, "and then you'll see a real disaster...
...symbol of Americans' compulsion to litter, took on a new kind of emblematic role last week. In a rare display of Government-industry amity, U.S. Steel Corp. announced that it will raise the price of the tin-plated steel used to make most beer, vegetable and fruit cans by an average of 4.8%, and the White House publicly bestowed its blessing on the increase as a relatively moderate one. More important, TIME has learned that the Carter Administration got U.S. Steel to shave down the increase as a result of private talks that constituted a model...
...never forget that first Beanpot," says Richardson, whose sterling senior goaltending enabled Harvard to cop the coveted crown. They played it on back-to-back nights before 5100 sardined maniacs who threw fruit, eggs, and even firecrackers at the padded warriors guarding the sacred mesh, recalls the transplanted New Yorker who learned the goalie craft playing street-roller-hockey in Central Park...
...begun to skid. The bitter cold and unrelenting snows that have gripped the U.S. east of the Rockies are throwing onto unemployment rolls hundreds of thousands of workers, ranging from coal miners in Appalachia to oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely, many economic effects of the Big Freeze will linger on into the spring and beyond...