Word: growers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...
...golden super-double hybrid nasturtium with nearly 60 petals and three inches across. This was the result of a chance mutation, an obscure dislocation of the hereditary mechanism of the sort that many a geneticist holds responsible for evolution. "The nasturtium was most carefully watched," said Grower Burpee, "in every stage of development. Every flower was examined and it was discovered that these super-double flowers were entirely female sterile. They kept on blooming and never went to seed." Because they are "female sterile," the flowers cannot be mated with one another. But not being "male sterile," their strain...
Since 1907 the Exchange has spent $21,600,000 advertising its brand name Sunkist. Last year its advertising budget included $1,450,000 for oranges, $581,000 for lemons, $34,600 for grapefruit. Average gross return to growers was about $2.30 per box. For advertising the Exchange assessed each grower 5? per box for oranges, 3? for grapefruit (Florida dominates that market), 10? for lemons, of which there is a perennial surplus. All other Exchange services cost 5.31? per box, and including those of district exchanges (less than 1? per box) total marketing and advertising charges amounted to about...
...Haas, who once was a fruit-grower himself, explained that somewhere in the earth below the apple a gold deposit must exist. He also explained that his indicator would do much more than locate an ore body. If, when suspended above an ore body, it swung back & forth 100 times, then the bottom of the ore body was 100 feet below the earth's surface. If it oscillated in a circle 20 times, then the ore contained one ounce of gold to the ton. Judging how far below the earth the top of an ore body might...
...retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways of the country, and their strange talk, filled with phrases like "right smart" and "hit's a pity," carry conviction. But Mrs. Rawlings' educated folk...