Word: lemons
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...Exchange has selling offices in all big U. S. cities, regulates the flow of fruit to market, maintains research laboratories, owns lumber mills (boxes), operates orange and lemon processing plants (oils and extracts), promotes the interests of the industry in general, California's in particular. It works constantly for reductions in freight rates, which, with refrigeration, represent about one-third of the wholesale value of California citrus. But most notable achievement has been to make orange juice at breakfast a national institution...
...brain, blunt the sense of smell. But sharpness of smell is so inconstant and the weak human nose can detect such minute quantities of a substance, that precise measurement seemed hopeless. Then Dr. Elsberg tried having the subject hold his breath while whiffs of air saturated with coffee or lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres...
...much of the nation's wealth is rolling across our frontiers for foreign-grown products. The time has come to take leave of that saffron-hued old sweetheart, the lemon. She is no longer needed, for Germany has a previous substitute in its indigenous rhubarb. We have been neglecting it up to now. but it shall come into its own. It is a blood purge and a curative remedy of genuine German quality. Our lemons, then, shall be atoned with German rhubarb...
...Lemon, we need thee no longer...
...Bailey's Hanging Judge was also believed last week to be the only one of His Majesty's judges who ever employed judicially that tart expression: "The answer is a lemon...