Word: grower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo eventually became the richest of the brothers, working variously as a talent agent, an airplane parts manufacturer and a citrus grower. His marriages (one to the current Mrs. Frank Sinatra), gambling sprees and occasional public scraps kept him in the limelight when Hollywood no longer did, but he spent his last years quietly in a Palm Springs mobile home...
...February 10, UFW striker Rufino Contreras, 27, was shot in the face with a .38 caliber bullet by three grower foremen when he tried to talk with strikebreakers in a lettuce field near El Centro, California. His killers escaped justice when a local judge dismissed murder charges without taking testimony from farm worker eyewitnesses to the slaying...
...what happens to the strikes? A unanimous walkout by farm workers at the struck lettuce ranches--the most successful farm strike in U.S. history--was broken through the grower's mass strike breaking tactics...
...book, rarely the strong point of an opera, invariably suffers most. The plot line of The Most Happy Fella is the kind of story that babies tell to babies. An elderly Italian-born Napa Valley grape grower named Tony (Giorgio Tozzi) is smitten with instant love for Rosabella (Sharon Daniels), a young San Francisco waitress. Tony woos and wins her by mail, aided by the deceptive use of a photograph of his strappingly virile farm manager, Joe (Richard Muenz...
...last year could have saved the $120 million it spent on trying to stop it and also collected taxes of $168 million on the huge amount of pot, worth an estimated $1.4 billion wholesale, that was smuggled out of the country. Further, Samper calculates that the estimated 30,000 grower families get only 8% of the earnings of the trade; the rest goes to smugglers and middlemen, most of them North Americans. Legalization, says Samper, would both spread the pot wealth better and rid Colombia of much of the corruption and violence that the illicit trade has spawned...