Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Paris' famed funny sheet Canard Enchaêné: French lovers of the grape, beware! The Government plans "wine control!" Serious papers paid no attention. Frenchmen growled: Tu parles! (No kidding...
...VINEYARD - Mary Loos & Walter Duranty-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Scenarist Loos and Reporter Duranty speculate on what happens when the surviving citizens of a Nazi-ruined village go back to it after the war. The citizens of Vineyard, a winegrowing village, live in caves, work hard to restore the blighted grape vines, manage to start a new life despite terrific obstacles. Young Anna's mind is cleared by her love of Joseph, Leah's viciousness subsides when her German lover is allowed to enter the community. Hollywood will not have to revise the ending...
...stations in 17 Latin American countries are broadcasting this program.) And then there is "TIME Views the News," which brings listeners the exclusive news reports that come to TIME every day from our own correspondents in every corner of the globe (these newscasts are sponsored by the Welch Grape Juice Co. over 188 Blue Network stations...
Apple production is 25 times what it was in 1914, grape acreage has multiplied ten times. Orchards are irrigated by underground pipes. Farm workers get $60 monthly, a farm director $340. Last year farm workers got bonuses in kind: 400 Ibs. of apples, 300 Ibs. of plums, 1,400 Ibs. of melons, tomatoes, pumpkins, beets...
...food that serves also as drink was reported last week by Harvard Medical School's Professor James L. Gamble. Glucose (grape sugar), said Professor Gamble, can profitably replace part of a man's water rations...