American car executives talk of the Japanese converting ships that normally carry fruit and vegetables into car-carrying vessels to satisfy demand.America's car makers traditionally whine whenever the dollar rises.
Autumn-fruiting raspberries need slightly different treatment as they carry fruit on canes formed earlier in the same season.
Even the snootiest markets often carry fruit a week or more away from its sell-by date.
THE breakthrough, or rather the potential for one, came last October, when the government issued a ruling that all fruits and vegetables that might carry fruit flies could now be irradiated for sale in the United States.
It is about a little boy who saves his 10-cent coins, in a currency where 100 cents made up one shilling, in hopes of buying a bicycle to help his mother carry fruit to the market.
"It's difficult for customers to carry fruit home this way but if that's the law then I guess it's for our own good and that of our children," he says.
He also said the police had defused a truck used for "carrying fruits and vegetables that was packed with explosives".
Ramon Ibarra, now 86, said he did two stints as a bracero, laying track for railroads in Arizona and layering ice into trains carrying fruits and vegetables in Bakersfield, Calif.
When Glen Rock was incorporated in 1894, two railroad lines through the borough carried fruits and vegetables from local farms to the markets in Paterson, N.J., and Suffern, N.Y.
Other specialized craft, such as the barges carrying fruits and vegetables, the garbage barges, ambulance and police launches, and the boats filled with tourists' baggage, make up a water scene of endless colour and variety.
