Word: winings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partly, this was insurance for Di Giorgio grapes. Now, if the price is not right, or frost comes early, the fruit king will turn his grapes into wine. But it was also an aggressive invasion of the wine business...
About the same time he got a heady taste of the wine industry, souring under Prohibition. Di Giorgio made a deal to deliver grapes free to the Italian Swiss Colony winery in exchange for 90 gallons of wine for each ton of fruit...
When Repeal came, he had 500,000 gallons aging in the winery. Italian Swiss, which had thought Di Giorgio crazy to give away his grapes, was glad to buy back his wine. His take...
...impressed the British, though they think he talks too much when indulging his fondness for good company and good wine. At the San Francisco conference Lie talked himself out of voice, whispered on in four languages (Norwegian, English, German, a little Russian...
...first duty is imposed on us: that of telling the French the truth, the whole truth, hard as it may be. . . . Here . . . are the harsh realities we must face . . . less wheat, less meat, less wine, less potatoes...