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...Down with tomato juice! Down with green vegetables! Down with fresh fruit!" weakly chanted 820 charity patients of Warsaw's Christ Child Hospital last week...
...Tomato Justice...
Certain vineyardists in western Colorado, parts of Utah and northern California last year were obliged to let their entire crop of grapes rot because pickers were afraid of the black widow spiders which infested the vines. In some regions throughout the Midwest black widows also got into the tomato vines, with the same result...
Last week Professor Fred Edmund D'Amour, University of Denver zoologist and physiologist, sent the cheery message to vineyardists and tomato croppers that he has devised a serum against the black widow's poison. The poison causes spasms, high fever, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, occasionally death. Treatment has been to relieve pain by narcotics, to relieve spasms by hot baths, to support strength with whiskey...
Last spring Soupmaker Albanus Phillips (Phillips Packing Co.) wagered a diamond-back terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes an acre on his Dorchester County, Md., estate. Gentleman-farmer Chrysler dispatched a fleet of trucks to Florida, imported the finest half-grown plants, had them tended daily. Last week the tomatoes were harvested, weighed. The costly Chrysler tomato patch had produced the shameful yield of 7.95 tons an acre...