Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Blaschka and his father sent the first shipment of the priceless flowers to Harvard in 1887, the total output of their studio has come here. The last group of flowers to be sent, fifteen fruit models, arrived in 1936. There is nobody to carry on their work, because father and son always did their work without any assistants...
When spectacled, studious John M. Cassells (a onetime Rhodes Scholar, later a Harvard instructor) was a youth, he worked in a wholesale fruit house. One of his functions was to mix bad peanuts with sound ones. He found the job particularly disagreeable because he was a Sunday School teacher. Mr. Cassells became interested in consumers' problems. Year and a half ago, when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. about $40,000 a year to found an Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens took John Cassells, then 37, from Harvard, made him director of its Institute...
...Promised Land, where they will live in "little white houses in among the orange trees." On the road some die and some wander off. Then, once in California, they become undeceived. The third of a million new arrivals are herded, persecuted, and starved into working in the fruit and cotton fields for mere crusts of bread. As Ma and their sometime preacher Casy say, it is only their anger that keeps them on their feet. The ranch owners thereby store up for themselves the ripening grapes of wrath that seem bound to ferment and burst into a fury of action...
...Frostproof, Fla., fruit growers worried by a five-month drought sought out 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. Her method (which, she says, has never failed in over 400 trials) : find a likely-looking body of water, sit by it several hours daily until it rains. For four days, on and off, she sat by Lake Reedy. Then it began to pour...
Idaho. It was 2:30 on a Sunday morning in quiet Nampa, Idaho. Straight down Third Street South, past the Pacific Fruit Express yards, a car raced at 70 m.p.h. It slowed to turn left on Eleventh Avenue, sailed past the historic Dewey Palace Hotel before State traffic officers caught it, arrested Vardis Fisher, 44, impassioned Idaho novelist. Writing an impassioned account for the Idaho Statesman, Author Fisher said he was taken to jail, told to put his heels together, hold his head back, and close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous...