Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second swing through the West last week. He holed up at Colorado Springs, where in the heady mountain air his entourage put out claims that he will have enough G. O. P. convention votes to nominate him for President on the first ballot. Democrat Jim Farley swigged tomato juice (his strongest tope) at a succession of Manhattan cocktail parties, let "friends" announce to the press that he also has first-ballot prospects (if Franklin Roosevelt does not run). Paul McNutt paraded through Guthrie, Okla., in a ten-gallon hat. Georgia Democrats swiped the State's convention delegation from Senator...
Seen from the air, this go-square mi. patch looks like one sprawling bailiwick, set in the flat expanses of citrus groves, bean and pepper and tomato fields that extend southward to the swampy Everglades. Actually it is divided into three parts. There are 1) the residential suburbs: Hialeah, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami (where many a homeowner last week had moved into his garage-apartment, rented his house for the winter season); 2) the city of Miami, lovely in segments but raw-ugly in sum, with its own tolerant government and its flamboyant, perennial "reform" Mayor...
Snow was general over the Southern States last week. A high-pressure area sweeping southeast from the frozen Mackenzie Basin of northern Canada brought in a week of sleet and rain, of wintry winds that ruined the tomato crop of the lower Rio Grande, killed cattle in the Kissimmee Valley of Florida, and spread a blanket of snow over the red clay of Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives...
...needed public good will when it agreed to drop overtime, work straight hours repairing plumbing. The Rio Grande Valley was hard hit: half the citrus crop near Brownsville was still on the trees, and Brownsville, at 29°, was colder than Nome, Alaska at 33°; 75% of the tomato crop was believed killed; beets and cabbages in the coastal bend near Corpus Christi were damaged. Estimated value of endangered fruit...