Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...examined. To offset such commercial gaucheries, Miss McBride made a point of eating products while discussing them on the air on the theory that she could better describe their goodness while actually going to work on them. This did not help her to reduce. Sponsored now by the Florida Citrus Commission, she serves grapefruit in the studio, spoons some herself whenever the spirit moves...
...Mexico City suburb of Coyoacan, not far from the house where Leon Trotsky was mortally hacked, stands a 25-acre, walled-in estate packed with recreations for a hearty body: a jai alai court, swimming pool, tennis court, club house with reducing machine, paths winding among citrus trees and flower beds, Turkish bath, barbershop, and seven residences for family and guests. Last week this estate was put up for sale for 52,000 pesos ($10,842), about one-tenth its assessed value. The sale and the cheap price symbolized the decline of a hope: the estate was the property...
...vitamins except D, has 28 times more vitamins per pound than dried fruits or vegetables. Its riches: 23 times more Vitamin A than carrots; nine times more Vitamin BI than leafy green vegetables; 22 times more Vitamin B2 than lettuce; 14 times more Vitamin C than tomatoes and citrus fruits...
World War II brought peace to Palestine. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem quit having Jews mobbed at the Wailing Wall. Arab and Jewish youths joined the British Near Eastern Army. Jews entered Arab districts without risk of being blown to pieces, and vice versa. Jewish and Arab citrus fruit growers talked of forming cooperatives and Arabs in Jerusalem went to Jewish nightclubs. Problems like further Jewish immigration and smaller Arab land ownership were put by for the duration...
Seen from the air, this go-square mi. patch looks like one sprawling bailiwick, set in the flat expanses of citrus groves, bean and pepper and tomato fields that extend southward to the swampy Everglades. Actually it is divided into three parts. There are 1) the residential suburbs: Hialeah, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami (where many a homeowner last week had moved into his garage-apartment, rented his house for the winter season); 2) the city of Miami, lovely in segments but raw-ugly in sum, with its own tolerant government and its flamboyant, perennial "reform" Mayor...