Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While machinery has eliminated plenty of agricultural jobs, sometimes it works the other way around, with labor shortages causing "forced mechanization." In the case of tomatoes, field workers, turning from arduous stoop work to higher-paying jobs in town, were becoming scarce even before the first mechanical tomato harvester appeared on the market in 1960. At Woodland, Calif., Farmer Bernell Harlan, 60, is part owner of a pair of $22,000 tomato harvesters, goes so far as to credit the machine with "saving the tomato industry for California...
...Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady in Italy, will net an estimated $10 million on its $250,000 investment in worldwide distribution. The success raised Actor Eastwood's fees; he got $15,000 for Fistful, now commands $500,000 a picture. It also encouraged Leone. Pouring on the tomato sauce, he followed last year with A Few Dollars More, which has become the second biggest money maker in Italian film history (No. 1: Dino De Laurentiis' War and Peace...
...went. Yielding to Common Market cries about a raw deal on a number of items totaling $50 million in annual trade, the U.S. further trimmed its rates on semifinished aluminum products, tomato paste, small tobacco items and eyeglass frames, got lower tariffs for U.S.-made TV tubes in return. The Danes' dander rose over the tariff on live beef, which is an important Danish export. In retaliation, Danish negotiators tacked "reservations" onto their commitment to cut passenger-car tariffs 50%, will likely stand fast on a token 20% reduction...
...collector and rebuilder of limp companies, California Industrialist Norton Simon owns an unrivaled record of success. From the tomato-paste base of his Hunt Foods, he has strung together an empire of two dozen corporations from publishing (McCall Corp.) to soft drinks (Canada Dry) to containers (Knox Glass). Almost every company that Simon has bought into has prospered and he has hung on to all of his major acquisitions...
...Blitman goes up ot the counter and asks for shishkebab. "We're all out," says Tommy. Shishkebab is a standing joke at Tommy's. They never serve it there. Blitman orders a hamburger plate. For only 85c he gets two hamburgers, one bun, two pads of butter, lettuce and tomato, mayonnaise, and french fries. A fifteen cent coke brings the price of dinner to one dollar even...