Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About as many oranges, lemons and grapefruit as last year...
...lights] were for, he merely shrugged his shoulders in a puzzled manner. . . . Nearly all of them thought that the barrage balloons over London had always been there. . . . One boy had recently seen a lemon in a hothouse in Kew Gardens and a little girl vaguely remembered having had a grapefruit many years ago. . . . Only one or two could remember [buying] candies without having to give up coupons...
...imposition of dollars-&-cents ceilings on most important foods in 150 major cities. These specific ceilings will take the place of the confused jumble of prices which resulted from previous freezing orders. From now on, in any given locality, there will be only one maximum price for canned grapefruit juice, for instance. Since this price will be widely publicized, it. should be easier than it has been in the past for housewives to help the Government enforce price ceilings...
Lampy's two runs followed an unfortunate train of events in which one of last year's lively balls was substituted for the traditional grapefruit. Major league talent scouts, on the prowl for likely looking 4Fs, girded their loins and scrammed after three innings. They missed the mighty rally...
...Having given up their annual swing around the grapefruit circuit last winter, top-flight golfers got together in the North and South Open at Pinehurst, N.C. New eligibility rule: players must be over 38 or in uniform. With such stars as Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson missing, Veteran Bobby Cruickshank, 48 and a grandfather, bagged the tournament with a mediocre 292, just 21 strokes above Hogan's winning score last year...