Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tone: "We should have never operated in a hotel room. Granted he's alive, but you shouldn't have let that brain fall on the rug. Next time St. Vincent's." He is "on" whenever he rides a plane. He likes to look down on the snow-covered Rockies and say to a stranger sitting next to him: "Looky there. I wonder what that means. HELP. Oops . . . there it goes. Snow blowed over it. Tough luck, Jack...
Minute Maid, which had grown fast since its founding in 1945, got into trouble when it bought out Snow Crop in 1954 to diversify into other frozen fruits and vegetables. Last year Snow Crop came a cropper; a surplus of fresh fruits and vegetables depressed prices while competition cut profit margins. Minute Maid ran into further trouble in its own orange processing, where costs increased while retail prices slid. Though 1957 sales were $103 million, the company reported a pre-tax loss of $5,000,000. When a December freeze hit Florida's citrus crop, Wall Street assumed...
...processing innovations enabled Minute Maid to save almost 95% of its frozen fruit with no damage to flavor. At the same time, Fox was getting out from under the money-losing Snow Crop operation. He licensed Seabrook Farms to process and sell frozen fruits and vegetables under the Snow Crop name, kept only Snow Crop's orange concentrate operations. By moving Minute Maid's headquarters from New York to Orlando, Fla. he cut costs and communication problems, trimmed marketing expenses by converting salesmen into brokers working on commission. Meanwhile, the growth of Florida cities has nearly tripled...
...Kozol is talking the language always learned and sometimes spoken by young people who don't get into bed often enough. He speaks quickly, with excitement and wonder, and it takes you no time at all to get from the snugness of a snow-dusted Maine cabin to the open opulence of a swank hotel in Barcelona...
Prior to June a "one-hour parking" rule was in effect on all Cambridge streets from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. Because this law was never posted and seldom enforced, acute traffic problems arose with respect to one-way streets, fire and emergency calls, and snow removal. Attempts to resolve the problem through enforcement of the little-known law aroused the ire of students when they discovered that sufficient overnight parking accommodations were not available at any cost...