Turn off at any one of the marked picnic areas ( gasoline companies have touring service bureaus that issue booklets on national parks to tell you where you have barbecue facilities ) and -- with soft drinks cooled from morning loading up, hamburger, buns, an array of relishes, and fresh fruit -- your lunch is 75% cheaper than at a restaurant, and 100% more fun.

Thousands of workers were laid off, and the wages of those remaining on the job were reduced, as were the prices paid to independent banana producers by the giant fruit companies.

As the depression deepened, the government's financial situation deteriorated ; in 1931 Mejía Colindres was forced to borrow US $ 250, 000 from the fruit companies to ensure that the army would continue to be paid.

The fruit companies continued to receive favorable treatment at the hands of the Gálvez administration ; for example, United Fruit received a highly favorable twenty-five-year contract in 1949.

In addition a number of fruit companies have warehouses there, due to the proximity of fruit orchards in the nearby Wenas Valley and access to regional railroad and roadway systems for shipment to markets.

It and the Alexander H. Kerr company, which made fruit jars, were the only glass companies remaining in business as recently as 1955.

In Israel, fruit squashes are produced by such companies as Assis, Prigat and Primor.

Webster, like AACo, is one of Australia ’ s oldest companies and runs a diversified merchandise, fruit and vegetables and aquaculture business.

US banana companies arrived in the area in the late 19th Century, and established vast plantations, as well as infrastructure to ship the fruit to the United States.

Yet the Decree 900 expropriations from the American fruit companies proved a fortuitous political opportunity, especially as presented by CIA Director Dulles and his brother, John Foster Dulles, the US Secretary of State, who each owned capital stock in the United Fruit Company ; their conflation of personal conflict of interest with the Cold War geopolitics of the Western Hemisphere made feasible the secret invasion to change the government of Guatemala by force of arms.

The establishment of Nicaraguan authority was in part supported by the various fruit companies from the United States that had begun large scale production of bananas in the Miskito reserve.

The railway line also helped the fruit tree nurseries, and family-operated companies such as Brunnings, Shepherds, Unthanks, Coles and Grants.

Chiquita Brands International, Inc. is the final name in a long list of companies whose ultimate origin was the United Fruit Company, formed in 1899 by the merging of the Boston Fruit Company and various fruit exporting concerns controlled by Minor C. Keith.

Later companies, the Standard Fruit and United Fruit Companies became the foundation for modern-day fruit companies, the industry which gave Honduras the sobriquet " banana republic ".

Located in Nine Elms between Vauxhall and Battersea, South West London, the Market covers a site of 57 acres ( 230, 670 m² ) and is home to approximately 200 fruit, vegetable and flower companies.

Its economy is based on the cultivation of fruit, but mechanical industries and services companies are present.

Along with the United Fruit Company, Standard Fruit played a significant role in the governments of Honduras and other Central American countries, which became known as " banana republics " because of the highly favorable treatment the fruit companies were given.

Although the exact origin of the Hawaiian plate lunch is disputed, it goes back to the 1880s when plantation workers were in high demand by the fruit and sugar companies.

Seed companies produce and sell seeds for flowers, fruit and vegetables to the

The resellers and wholesalers sell to vegetable and fruit growers, and to companies who package

--" As a result of aggressive marketing by cola companies, people have stopped drinking healthy drinks like fruit juices and people in the villages have actually begun to believe that soft drinks are good for health.

Seminis was established in 1994 to consolidate leading companies in the fragmented fruit and vegetable seed industry.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

As an example, Mexico started to export irradiated guava to the U. S. in 2008 and mango, sweet lime, manzano pepper in 2009 ; and has received approval for citrus and star fruit with exports to initiate in 2012.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Patras.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

Aside from the human brain, there are many other animals whose brains and nervous systems have received extensive study as model systems, including mice, zebrafish, fruit fly, and a species of roundworm called C. elegans.

His collaboration with Broadwood would continue to bear fruit when, in 1794, he also received the first 6-foot ( 1. 8 meter ) piano.

However, Eleanor lived and was treated as a royal princess with servants and medical assistants and proper diet, and it was recorded that she received generous gifts from the royal family such as game, fruit, nuts and wine.

Since the year 2000, after receiving State invention award in 1996 and the second and the third prizes of the State scientific and technological progress in 1998, the University has received another three State prizes namely the State first prize and the second prize for scientific and technological progress, the State second prize for teaching fruit.

In July 2008, CLA received a no objection letter from the FDA on its Generally Recognized as Safe ( GRAS ) status for certain food categories, including fluid milk, yogurt, meal replacement shakes, nutritional bars, fruit juices and soy milk.

As a fruit farmer, Mr Noakes received a petrol ration to take his produce to Covent Garden market in central London.

The town has received a state government grant to start a community garden site on the Pakenham Road reserve growing various fruit and vegetables.

The fruit companies continued to receive favorable treatment at the hands of the Gálvez administration ; for example, United Fruit Company received a highly favorable twenty-five-year contract in 1949.

The imprisoned soldiers received two meals a day of steamed rice, occasionally accompanied by fruit, soup, or meat.

Though edible, this fruit has received little attention worldwide.

Actually very small fruit, these " seeds " yield a valuable volatile oil used in the perfume and pharmaceutical industries.

The climate is generally dry and mild, but with the exception of Naxos the soil is not very fertile: agricultural produce includes wine, fruit, wheat, olive oil, and tobacco.

However, the fruit wall is very thin, and is fused to the seed coat, so almost all of the edible grain is actually a seed.

While the vines, leaves and grapes look very similar, both grapes produce wines with distinct characteristics — Carménère being more strongly flavored with green pepper notes and Merlot having softer fruit with chocolate notes.

Apriums are usually only available early in the fruit season, like apricots and unlike pluots, which include some very late-ripening varieties.

* Flavorosa: very sweet, medium-sized, flat round dark-purple fruit with red flesh, early ripening

* Flavorosa: very sweet, medium-sized, flat, round, dark-purple fruit with red flesh, very early ripening

* Splash: small to medium red-orange fruit, with very sweet orange flesh, midseason

Infant baptism is seen as showing very clearly that salvation is an unmerited favour from God, not the fruit of human effort.

Pears and apples cannot always be distinguished by the form of the fruit ; some pears look very much like some apples.

The well-known variations result from the very complex interactions between the biochemical development of the fruit, reactions involved in fermentation, and human intervention in the overall process.

Therefore the Chardonnay grapes do not fully develop its fruit flavors and the still version of Champagne can taste very " un-Chardonnay "- like because of this.

Washington Chardonnays can be very similar to Californian Chardonnays but there tends to be more emphasis on fruit than creaminess.

South American Cabernets have very pronounced fruit flavors when they are young and the best made examples will maintain some of those flavors as they age.

The fruit skin ( exocarp ) is thin and the bitter-sweet pulp ( mesocarp ) is yellowish-white and very fibrous.

Of these the apple and the pear are ( as of 2011 ) very inferior in Corfu ; the others thrive, together with all the fruit trees known in southern Europe, with addition of the kumquat, loquat and prickly pear and, in some spots, the banana.

The fruit is capable of absorbing large amounts of cooking fats and sauces, making for very rich dishes, but salting reduces the amount of oil absorbed.

With the advantage of a peculiarly fine climate, for which this part of Asia Minor has been famous in all ages, Ionia enjoyed the reputation in ancient times of being the most fertile of all the rich provinces of Asia Minor ; and even, though very imperfectly cultivated, it produces abundance of fruit of all kinds, and the raisins and figs of Smyrna supply almost all the markets of Europe.

The Royal Navy went on to note that based on its interrogations of Kriegsmarine POWs that Raeder's indoctrination policy had borne fruit in that the morale of the Kriegsmarine was extremely high, with the majority of officers and sailors very proud to fight for Führer and fatherland.

When the coconut fruit is still green, the husk is very hard, but green coconuts only fall if they have been attacked by molds or other blights.

The fruit of citrus, such as the orange, kumquat and lemon, is a berry with a thick rind and a very juicy interior that is given the special name hesperidium.

In particular, very little is known about effects of simple sugars in whole fruit and vegetables.

Yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ) has long been an important model organism for the eukaryotic cell, while the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been a very important tool ( notably in early pre-molecular genetics ).