Word: peaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrid mess in his garden and the stains on the floor, French detectives at once remembered M. Sarret's garden and its pile of acid-eaten animal bones. The Schmidt sisters were questioned for hours. Finally Catherine Schmidt confessed. Louis Chambon, the unfrocked priest, had threatened to peach on Georges Sarret. Chambon was lured with his mistress to the house, and while Catherine Schmidt kept a motorcycle engine roaring in the cypress shaded courtyard to drown all noise, Georges Sarret shot priest & mistress from behind a screen. They drove into Marseilles where Murderer Sarret purchased a bathtub, then sent...
...factory, was earning $400,000 per year and its stock was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. "My sun was shining brightly," wrote he. "The desire to conquer new fields was running in my veins." The field he picked for conquest was Georgia's excess peach crop, which he planned to quick-freeze and market in the off season. As Depression deepened, how ever, Tom Huston's market for quick-frozen peaches froze almost as quickly as Tom Huston's peaches. By the time he decided to abandon the project, he needed cash...
Uncle Harry just let me have a look at Mallinckrodt, which is a huge building for making gases, and I told Uncle Harry that I thought so, but he said they also make peach, and orange and lemon flavoring from little molecules. Then he made me come back to his rooms and pack, but I have so much time that I am writing this letter and wish I could have gone into the chemical laboratory. Love, Osear...
...seaside and swamp morning-glories, hosts of the sweet potato weevil; 198 men to remove debris from Alaskan rivers so salmon can swim up and spawn; 94 Indians to transport snowshoe rabbits to those of the Kodiak Islands that need to be restocked; 1,112 men to eradicate phony peach; a group to wash Manhattan's civic statues; unemployed colored girls to keep house for destitute families...
With a bang that reverberated throughout California, the cannery of Calistan Packers, Inc. near Modesto was closed temporarily last week by a Federal court order under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Clingstone peaches caused the trouble. In August, A.A.A. put through an agreement among some 50 canners limiting the pack of the California crop to 218,000 tons (10,000.000 cases). Packers were to pay peach growers $20 per ton for their product (last year's price: $6.50). They were also to contribute $2.50 for every ton they packed to a fund with which to compensate growers for their unharvested...