Word: groves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orange concentrate operations. By moving Minute Maid's headquarters from New York to Orlando, Fla. he cut costs and communication problems, trimmed marketing expenses by converting salesmen into brokers working on commission. Meanwhile, the growth of Florida cities has nearly tripled the value of Minute Maid's grove holdings to $28.8 million. Fox plans to sell suburban acreage each year, buy more rural property for groves...
Little White School. Almond was born in Charlottesville on June 15, 1898, the second of the five children of a Southern Railway locomotive engineer who retired, after a 1901 head-on collision, to his 250-acre family farm in rolling Orange County. There, near the tiny village of Locust Grove on the Chancellorsville battlefield, just four miles from the Wilderness thicket where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men, Lindsay Almond grew up. Lindsay did farm chores, worked nights with his mother at the kitchen table, learned to read and write even before he trudged...
...action. Armed with a shotgun and a .22-cal. pistol, they visited Cockrell's chief sponsor. Mayor Willie Berle Horn, told him: "You get rid of Cockrell, or we will. And you'll be next." Answering a Horn call, Cockrell caught up with the boys in a grove of trees at town's edge, where farmers park their trucks to sell watermelons. There, in a wildly confused tussle, the shooting started. While frightened farmers dived under their trucks, Cockrell fell, shot three times with .22-cal. bullets...
Under gnarled old trees in a quiet olive grove on the inland side of Beirut's strategic International Airport, officers of the U.S. Army's 187th Airborne Battle Group were working on a battle plan. They were ready, if called upon, to roll up the Basta, a Moslem area of Beirut held by Nasserite rebels, sealed by deep tank traps, banked with sandbags, defended by carefully sited automatic weapons. But there were immediate problems in the olive grove. Inevitably, the trucks and heavy combat vehicles of the 187th were barging into some of the olive trees causing damage...
...ogre's mouth (opposite) while conversing with a white cat. Research by Italian and English scholars indicates that, far from being a surrealist chamber of horrors, the garden was originally a rather solemn effort to combine the wonders of the ancient world with figures from a pagan sacred grove. With sphinxes on either side of the entrance to give fair warning, Vicino Orsini did all he could to create the impression that some otherworldly spirit had brought the strange stone figures into existence, left no record of who the actual sculptors or stonecutters were...