Word: syrups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rite of Spring. But this year farmers, who got only $3.39 a gallon for syrup under OPA, would not have to worry about price. It was already up to $5 a gallon, and many Vermonters were holding...
Nearly a third of Vermont's 24,000 farmers produce maple syrup or sugar, making the state the nation's top producer (1946 output: 633,000 gallons). But many of the farmers who sell the syrup by mail to friends regard sugaring more as a sentimental rite of spring than as a business. Their philosophy is that "It don't cost me nothin' to make sugar. If I wasn't doing that I'd just be fixin' fence." And sugaring, with wives and children turning the gathering and boiling of the sap into...
...Wall Street, Ayres retired to the Green Mountains ten years ago to hunt and fish. He bought a farm at Shaftsbury, which had a 100-year-old maple orchard. Today he owns three farms, has 3,500 buckets out and produces some 700 to 1,000 gallons of syrup. Ayres thinks that the way farmers have cut down their maple groves is bad, their marketing worse. He would 1) bar anyone producing syrup outside of Vermont from calling it "Vermont syrup"; 2) set up a state marketing and quality commission; 3) have packers take over the entire marketing program...
...copy of PUBLICK OCCURRENCES. It is not exposed on the Public Marts, nor is it hawked about by street urchins . . . but we might be inveigled into a bit of Honest Barter. ., . . If you produce a joint of Ham, a shaving Lotion, a good Bourbon, a jug of maple syrup or any other good and honest item then we are sometimes in the mood to have...
...overlooking the teeming beach was jammed with Sabbath idlers sipping blood-red gazoz, Tel Aviv's favorite syrup-and-soda drink. One youth sat quietly alone, smoking cigarets and drinking thick Turkish coffee. Two men approached his table, murmured "Shalom" (Peace), the traditional Jewish greeting. "Shalom," the youth replied. The two sat down...