Word: grapefruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade ago, when Supergolfers Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen dominated U. S. fairways, four par rounds were good enough to win almost any tournament. Last week, when this year's troupe of top-notch U. S. golf professionals concluded their winter trek around the "grapefruit circuit," the scores they whacked into the record books conclusively proved that par has lost its meaning...
Scarcely had Commissioner Leadbetter appealed for aid than the New Deal's Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation packed up crates of oranges and grapefruit to send to Maine. Few medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook...
...idea of a championship encounter, the Rose Bowl. Soon a lot of other people wanted a lot of other Bowls, the Sugar, the Cotton, the Finger, the Orange, and Hawaii's Pineapple. It was surprising, as a matter of fact, that baseball was able to keep possession of the Grapefruit...
Nevertheless, some 300 of the country's best golfers last week prepared to spend the winter trudging around the "grapefruit circuit," a coast-to-coast series of tournaments sponsored by southern hotels, newspapers and chambers of commerce...
...twenties he made a beeline for the French and German champagne cellars. In 1932 Mr. Moore returned to California, and last week he told Sacramento reporters that after six years of experiment he had perfected a modern method of making champagne from oranges. To the juice of oranges and grapefruit he adds distilled water, dextrose and yeast. The mixture is then slowly drawn through a series of five glass-lined, airtight, chromium-fitted 200-gal. tanks. By the time the juice reaches the last tank, 75% of the sugar has been converted into alcohol. This takes ten days...