Word: seedless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sells the B-12-rich residue cheaply to feed companies, which put it into animal rations. Merck & Co. and others have synthesized gibberellic acid, which has a powerful growth-stimulating effect on plants. Minute traces in spray will make spinach grow a second crop, and double the size of seedless grapes...
Candy Is Dandy . . . In Klamath Falls, Ore., when prisoners sent their weekly orders for cigarettes, chocolate bars and magazines to a nearby store, Jailer Fred Calfee intercepted and rejected one list: 5 Ibs. of white rice, 1 large can of pineapple juice, 2 Ibs. of seedless raisins, 10 Ibs. of sugar, 2 cakes of brewer's yeast...
...call to transact business. Some produce firms, collection agencies and manufacturers are among the offenders, costing the telephone company untold revenue every year. A fruit company in California may call its distributor in Chicago, and ask for "Mr. Brown." Translated, the words mean that it has a carload of seedless grapefruit at $2 a case. The answer, "Sorry, Mr. Brown is in Portland," means, "Fine, send a car load for Wednesday delivery...