Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Halterophera Capitata. The Board has done some preliminary relief work on the citrus fruit situation in Florida where the ravages of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Halterophera capitata) had created an acute local problem (TIME, May 6 et seq.). Two competing fruit cooperatives appealed for the Board's help. The Board sent them away with a promise of help after they had merged their efforts, eliminated duplication, become representative of all Florida fruit growers in trouble...
...Florida fruit fly problem rested more heavily at the moment upon Secretary Hyde than it did upon the Board. Florida banks were failing, 24 in a row. A rigid Federal quarantine around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control...
Halterophora Capitata, informally known as the Mediterranean fruit fly, arrived in Florida mysteriously, probably late last year. Some say it may have traveled in the straw around the liquor-bottles on a rumboat. It is a fly which settles in any kind of fruit except watermelons and pineapples, or in vegetables if fruit is not handy. One fruit fly will lay 800 eggs. An orange, lemon or grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave...
...damage was done not so much by the fruit-fly itself as by destruction of crops to stamp the insect out of Florida. Thousands of trees have been cut down. Fruit has been destroyed. In infested areas, no new crops can be planted. No fruits can be exported from any part of Florida without the most rigid inspection. Even motorists, driving through the infested districts, are stopped at county borders while busy officials squirt insecticide over cars, coats, baggage. Even personal luggage is opened and the contents liberally squirted. To a protesting motorist, one official remarked: "Well, lady, we have...
...collapse. Many a nervous depositor rushed to his bank, clamored for his money, brought on the very disaster that he feared. The bank failure climax came last week when Citizen's Bank & Trust Co. of Tampa closed its doors and carried down with it nine subsidiary banks. Between fruit flies, bad notes and wild rumors, a wholesale panic appeared imminent...