Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Prohibition came, President August said: "We'll make shoelaces if we have to, but I'll never close this plant." Anheuser-Busch never had to make shoelaces, but it made "Bevo" (an unfermented, nonalcoholic drink that was supposed to taste like beer), near-beer, ginger ale, Grape Bouquet, root beer, "Kaffo" (a syrup for iced coffee), Busch "Tee," Carcho (a chocolate drink), starch, dextrine, corn products, malt syrup (for home brewing), and even refrigerator truck bodies and ice cream freezing units. In the end, it was yeast that pulled the company through, and today its yeast production...
Died. Charles Collins Teague, 76, president for 30 years of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, which he built into the huge "Sunkist" agency that now sells most of California's oranges, Federal Farm Board member (1929-31) who first regulated grape production; in Santa Paula, Calif...
...Look Foolish." Nothing came of it until last week when alert, 16s-lb. Quarterback LeBaron began whipping a squad of Pacific football seniors and alumni into shape. In the dead of winter, without the official blessing of either school, LeBaron was going to have his day in the Grape Bowl stadium in Lodi, Calif, against unpredictable, 175-lb. Engineer Celeri and a squad of California's Golden Bears. Three enterprising University of California students had promoted the game and in the first three days had sold 4,000 tickets at $2.50 apiece in the valley alone...