Word: raisin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They asked him about a raisin-growers' association which had received a loan, sending the price of one raisin company's bonds up some 30 points. He explained those bonds were held by the public; that the company's valuable tradename ("Sun-Maid") had been saved from foreclosure sale...
...Federal Farm Board agreed upon a $9,000,000 loan, half from its own resources, half from California banks, to grape and raisin growers to assist them in marketing the 1929 crop. Since Prohibition the grape industry has boomed, vineyards have been doubled, overexpansion has occurred...
...staff and scarce as to furniture. On the walls hang many photographs of family Blumenthal groups-the various Blumenthals with their wives and children and an old group picture of the five brothers. The Blumenthals are best known through their Raisinettes, a specialty consisting of a chocolate-embedded raisin. Another good Blumenthal seller is a peanut coated with chocolate. All the Blumenthals are excellent pinochle players...
...knew and resented their fate. The pneumonia of the shiftless, the tuberculosis of the overwearied struggler, the heart disease of the adventurer, no longer acted alone as our receiving agents. Instead, men shot themselves or each other; threw themselves into the lake [Lake Erie]; poisoned themselves with morphine or raisin jack; or perished of cold, listlessly lost in despair." Late in 1922 smaller brains came to the anatomy rooms. "[Industrial] relief had come; though it was not apparent to the city, we knew that the end was in sight. Hope was restored again in those whose nervous systems had been...
...Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall in particular. The mess sergeant gave him the day's menu: fresh fruit, ham and eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal...