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...tale concerns Hidalgo County in far southeastern Texas. Twenty years ago Hidalgo was flat, hot, empty, covered with mesquite, stalked by lonely, dusty greasers. Today Hidalgo is a shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop is estimated at 4,500 carloads per year. Hidalgo homes are prosperous. Yancy Baker, onetime roughriding Hidalgo sheriff, now Democratic boss, lives in an enormous red and yellow showr place. Hidalgo people smile in the sun. Hidalgo ripens like its fruits. It has been irrigated financially through troughs of clever politics...
...Diamonds (cut) 20% 20% 10% Diamonds (uncut) 10% 10% Free Dolls 7% 90% 70% Dried Apricots (lb.) ½? 2? 6? Dried Cherries (lb.) Free 2? 6? Eggs (doz.) 8? 10? 10? Flaxseed (bush.) 40? 63? 56? Glassware (toilet) Free 50% 82% Gloves 40-75% 60% 30% Grapefruit (lb.) 1? 1½? 1? Harness Leather Free 12½% 14% Hay (ton) $4 $4 $5 Hides Free 10% 10% Lemons (lb.) 2? 2? 2½? Logs (spruce, cedar) Free $1 Free Manganese Ore (lb.) 1? 1? Free Maple Sugar (lb.) 4? 7½? 9? Matches (box) 8? 20? 20? Milk...
...have traveled in the straw around the liquor-bottles on a rumboat. It is a fly which settles in any kind of fruit except watermelons and pineapples, or in vegetables if fruit is not handy. One fruit fly will lay 800 eggs. An orange, lemon or grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave the alarm (TIME, May 6), there has been little or no production on thousands of rich Florida acres...
...field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
...cotton episode was accompanied by, or perhaps it caused a rumor that Secretary Jardine would soon resign to accept a high-salaried position as "tsar" of the orange-lemon-grapefruit industry in Flori...