Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same hurricane leveled many a Florida citrus grove. Shipments of Florida oranges will be cut 20%, grapefruit, 43%. There were few lemons in the Eastern U.S. food markets...
...descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
...given a scroll by vinegary Lieut. General Joe Stilwell which identified her as a Dead End Kid (because she went to the end of the line). In Burma and China, Pioneer Paulette rode many an extra jeep mile to get to plumbing, often brushed her teeth with canned grapefruit juice, washed her underwear in a helmet, herself in leftover...
...menu included: fruit cocktail (Texas grapefruit, Brazilian pineapple, Guatemalan bananas, Mexican papaya) ; vegetable plate (Guatemala chayote, Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...
About 80 Congressmen- and some 180 free riders-sat down with tieless, sport-shirted Bill Jack, ate seafood cocktail with Russian dressing, tiny brown-bread-&-cheese sandwiches, terrapin soup, breast of capon and Virginia ham, potatoes au gratin, lettuce and grapefruit salad, ice cream, demitasse. Well-fed-a few grumbled because there was no liquor-they listened to Lobbyist Jack's proposition...