Word: tomatos
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AGRIBUSINESS. From the cucumber patches of Maryland through the orange groves of Florida to the tomato fields of California, thousands of farm workers live in squalid shacks with communal latrines and no running water. Fruit and vegetable growers assert that they pay the minimum wage, but the money is often funneled through labor contractors who actually hire the workers. In many cases, these so-called crew chiefs, who are usually immigrants themselves, deduct exorbitant amounts from worker salaries for food, rent and transportation...
...notorious employer of illegal farm laborers is Ukegawa Brothers Inc., a large tomato grower in northern San Diego County. Says Chris Hartmire, an assistant to the president of the United Farm Workers of America: "The Ukegawa workers are living on the ground, under trees, under shrubs, in makeshift huts. They're in a semi-slave situation." The workers bathe in irrigation canals and often drink contaminated water...
...Diphos, a more powerful pesticide. Next day the number of trapped flies dropped sharply. But farm officials recognized the difficulty of eliminating an insect that can produce 500 or more offspring in a month-long lifetime. In Modesto, not far from San Joaquin's lush fields, where tomato, peach and melon crops are now ripening, one had this to say about the tiny foe: "It's probably some place out there already and we just don't know...
...were only the foothills of genius. The Good Humor Corp., with an excess of hubris, made a chili con carne ice-cream bar, which failed. L.L. Bassett, grandson of the founder of the great Philadelphia ice creamery (his daughter Ann took over the company five years ago), made yellow tomato ice cream in the 1930s. No one liked it. Dill-pickle ice cream, intended for pregnant women, was concocted by a shop in Michigan. It succeeded. More than one specialty shop whipped up jelly-bean ice cream in honor of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, but Washington Lawyer Weiss, perhaps...
...largest financial empires; of complications from an abdominal aneurysm; in New Orleans. A school dropout at 13, Ball was working as a salesman on the West Coast when Alfred du Pont, having married Ball's sister in 1921, hired him to run a Du Pont-owned tomato-canning plant. After Du Font's death in 1935, Ball took over the management of his estate, enlarging it to include the St. Joe Paper Co., two railroads and vast real estate loldings in Florida and Georgia...