Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Play. In a little vineyard hidden from German eyes across the Messina Strait, a U.S. battery commander, Lieut. William B. Dougherty, brought up "Draftee," one of the 155-mm. rifles that the Allies have dubbed "Long Tom" and the Germans "Whispering Death." A truck hauled the heavy gun into position. The crew wrote their names on the first shell. A red-haired Tennessee private was about to yank the lanyard when the colonel came up and said: "Do you mind, son?" The private answered: "That's all right, sir." The colonel yanked. Seconds later the shell crashed into...
Your article "Down With the Plow" (TIME, July 26) interested me very much because I have an orchard and vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif., which I planted 18 years ago. I have not plowed this place for 15 years on the theory that plowing . . . would do more damage to the soil than good, as these mountains suffer every year from erosion. . . . My trees are more vigorous and produce more fruit than my neighbors...
...since wine and liquor are usually retailed through the same outlets) and advertise wines in a bigger & better way. Already Schenley is on the air with a 4 5-minute nationwide radio show to boost wine consumption. On this score even the independent wineries are happy. Said San Gabriel Vineyard Co.: "The big fellows will publicize wine as it has never been publicized before...
...while all this may happen, the "big fellows" may also destroy competition, as has been the case in many another industrial merger. Moreover, distilling hard liquor and producing wine have almost nothing in common; hence distillers have for the present nothing to add to vineyard technique. This is especially true in the case of high-grade wines, where small discriminating wineries such as California's Paul Masson Winery and Wente Bros, have labored hard to collect an educated clientele. Best hope is that despite the invasion of big-time money the small fellow will still compete in producing both...
...NOBODY'S VINEYARD- H. C. Bailey-^k Crime Club ($2). Josh Clunk, London criminal lawyer, who chants revival hymns while plotting legal deviltries, saves a client and clears up, in his own oblique style, four mysterious deaths in a corrupt English seaside town. A highly rewarding yarn...