Word: ukiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born at Ukiah, Calif, in the northern redwood country, William Standley was the son of a sheriff-rancher. In 1890 he read an advertisement for competitive examinations to Annapolis. He frankly admits that he took the tests "just for an excuse to go to Santa Rosa," was surprised when he won the appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy...
Wearied of ambiguities. Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis ruled in his Kansas City, Mo. court that Ukiah Grape Products Co.. although its juices were unfermented when sold to a customer, incriminated itself in fact because its agents not only assured purchasers that "the product would come up to the standard of any pre-War wine." but went around to the customer's house to "service" or bottle the inevitably intoxicating after-product. Judge Otis went backward from result to cause to prove intent...
...sumptuous Washington offices. Fruit Industries, Ltd., potent California grape-growers cooperative which has borrowed more than $2,500,000 from the Federal Farm Board, pondered the Ukiah decision last week and took warning. Fruit Industries, said Managing Director Donald D. Conn, will no longer sell or "service" Vine-Glo grape concentrate. Instead the company's other concentrates?Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven, Guasti?will be sold unserviced "for soft drinks as usual. "If anyone still wants to let Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven or Guasti sit 60 days and ferment like Vine-Glo into wine, Fruit Industries will not and does...