Word: tropicana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...object to nudity," explained Musicomedienne Carol Charming. But after watching an undraped contingent of Folies-Bergère dolls at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Carol asked out of her $100,000-a-year contract with the Tropicana that called for an eight-week appearance this year and next. The nudes were "just wonderful," she insisted. "The trouble is, if I were to work in the same show -as the management wanted-I would just flop. There's no sympathy in the Folies. I can't get laughs until an audience is with...
...TROPICANA orange-juice-processing in Florida will be banned for 30 days by order of the Florida State Agriculture Commission, which found that Tropicana had adulterated chilled orange juice with sugar syrup...
...continuous inspection," he is led to believe that the company president squeezed the juice directly into the carton with his own hands. Last week that belief suffered a blow that could set off the rediscovery of fresh oranges. In the Florida citrus industry's biggest scandal in years, Tropicana Products Inc., the world's biggest dealer in fresh chilled orange juice,* was accused of spiking its juice with sugar syrup...
...Florida, where the multimillion-dollar citrus industry is one of the state's biggest, that is tantamount to coming out for frost. Chairman J. R. Graves of the Florida Citrus Commission accused Tropicana of "premeditated and willful violation of the citrus code" (which prohibits producers from adding anything to fresh juice), called the deed "a reflection on the integrity of the entire industry." The Florida Citrus Commission called for punishment of Tropicana "in a degree commensurate with the seriousness of the offenses." Tropicana President Anthony T. Rossi admitted that he had ordered cane sugar syrup added to about half...
Jewel Robbery. Many a sickly baby has grown into a hefty corporate giant under Heller's sure guidance; the firm has given a helping hand to such companies as Continental Motors, National Airlines, Helene Curtis, Tropicana Products and United Artists. The former head of Michigan's Clinton Engine Corp. was so grateful for Heller's help that he recently took a quarter-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to express his thanks. "The average bank doesn't know what sympathy is," says Eugene T. Barwick, president of Georgia's E. T. Barwick Mills, which...