Buffalo Evening News · 4 January 1937
CP-1937-025
Record Fruit Crop Grown On Farms of Holy Land
Citrus Harvest, Valued at $20,000,000, Shows Success of Jewish Economic Life.
By DAVID SOIBELMAN. Copyright, 1937, by BUFFALO EVENING NEWS.
Shown from the top. The whole column — 4.3 times taller than it is wide — is in the enlargement.
Transcribed from the clipping
TEL AVIV, Jan. 2.—Palestine today is happily busy in exporting some 9,000,000 cases of citrus fruit, the largest crop in its history. In the roadsteads of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, and the harbor of Haifa, the holds of many vessels are loaded with the most important products of the Holy Land. This crop is valued at $20,000,000.
For weeks the country has been busy picking, grading, sorting and packing oranges, grapefruit, lemons and tangerines, loading them on trucks and freight cars and sending them to the seaports for shipment to the United Kingdom and other European countries.
How this transcription was made
Read from the scan at 6x to 10x with the contrast stretched. THE PAPER AND THE YEAR ARE BOTH PRINTED ON THE PAGE, in the copyright line under the byline: “Copyright, 1937, by BUFFALO EVENING NEWS.” The hand-typed slide label gave the paper as Buffalo News, a form this archive holds under neither of its two existing Buffalo titles, and the record follows the page rather than the label; filing it as the label wrote it would have created a third Buffalo newspaper out of a paper that names itself on its own sheet. There is no masthead or folio, so the exact day of 4 January rests on the label, supported by the dateline “TEL AVIV, Jan. 2.” and by the copyright year. The display line over the photograph, “Packing Oranges in Palestine”, is a picture head and not the story’s headline. One sentence further down the column, read at 9x but falling outside the excerpt, records the effect of the 1936 Arab general strike on the trade: “it resulted in the inability of the Arab farmers to get their produce to the markets, thus giving the Jews a chance to expand their market.”
Cite this clipping
"Record Fruit Crop Grown On Farms of Holy Land," Buffalo Evening News, 4 January 1937. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-025
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