Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover's Ranch, Wasco, Cal." A pell-mell demand for Hoover apricots followed until the supply was exhausted. . . . Great was the President's annoyance at this exploitation of his name and position. Careful explanations emanated officially from the White House: President Hoover does not own a Wasco Fruit Ranch. He does own some stock in Pozo Products Co. which in turn controls the ranch. The use of his name was "positively unauthorized," "grossly misleading...
Like a luscious, dangling fruit is Manchuria, granary of the Orient, the only part of China not impoverished by war and famine, a prosperous land that absorbs annually $36,000,000 worth of U. S. goods. Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...
Lovell Langstrotk of San Francisco reported that he improved the condition of middle-aged patients with rheumatism, heart disease, diabetes and other degenerative diseases by feeding them largely on vitamin-bearing foods?eggs, milk, fruit, vegetables...
Prime statistic is the weekly figure on car-loadings, vital index of the nation's business. Fruit from California and Florida, motor cars from Detroit, coal from Pennsylvania, textiles from New England, clothing from New York, cotton from the South, wheat from the West?all commodities move, and move largely by rail. High car-loadings show brisk business, efficient carriers. Pleased was the American Railway Association last week to announce that car-loadings for the first 26 weeks of 1929 made an all-time record for loadings for the first half of any year. Loadings for the week ended June...
...wireless, and be a customer for the Alexanderson alternator. General Electric bought out the British Marconi company's interest in American Marconi, organized Radio Corp. of America to take over the business of American Marconi, which thereupon became defunct. Associated with General Electric were American Telephone & Telegraph, United Fruit Co., and Westinghouse Electric, of which only Westinghouse remains an important factor. Thus U. S. wireless became strong and vigorous, developed a three-second trans-Atlantic service, carried many a code message for many an efficient corporation...