Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venial, how delectable is the grape...
...1920s grape-growers ripped out the first-class European vines-the Pinot and Senillon and Riesling, which bore less than two tons of grapes to an acre-and replaced them with indifferent vines which bore up to ten. Reason: Prohibition's amateur vintners bought grapes by quantity, not quality. The wine business continued turning out just about enough wine for the ecclesiastical trade, but the grape business prospered. California shipped about 16,000 carloads of grapes in 1918; by 1927 it shipped 73,000 carloads...
...when Franklin Roosevelt began promising the country light wines & beer, California wine-men formed a Grape-Growers League (now the Wine Institute) and hired a tiny, hard-working Scotsman, Harry Arthur Caddow, as secretary-manager to help repair the damage of the Prohibition years. Today California makes 97% of U. S. wine and the Wine Institute represents the producers of 75% of California's wine. Little Harry Caddow, still the Wine Institute's secretary-manager, has a hard job getting his temperamental French, Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries...
...months ago when the business curve was still on the rise, Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester of General Foods Corp. addressed the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Speaking not only for the makers of Grape Nuts, Post Toasties and Sanka Coffee but also, as head of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a vast and potent slice of U. S. management, Mr. Chester concluded with this prophetic declaration...
Funster House Committeemen issued the following statement last night in regard to tomorrow's festivities: "The followers of Bacchus will make merry, and there will be revelry and song, sweet music and gay laughter when maids and swains frolic under the ivy tower. The grape will flow from many a bowl, and there will be feasting in the great hall. Dinner will be served from 6 to 6:45, and there will be dancing from 6 to 12 at Dunster House after the Dartmouth game...