Word: tarter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeffrey Tarter...
...best of Spain's eating-olive crop is bugged. The pestiferous Dacus fly, or Dacus oleae-a kissin' cousin of the U.S. fruit fly-is nibbling its way through millions of gallons of plump Queen olives and slimmer, tarter Manzanillas. Seville and surrounding territory in western Andalusia produce 98% of the world's green eating olives, and the U.S. buys 75% of them. U.S. importers say that wholesale prices for Manzanillas have already risen 15%-from $34 to $39 per fanega (16 gal.). Queens are 50% more expensive-at $20 to $30 per fanega. But because...