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Navajo Indians are in demand as workers in the sugar-beet fields of the West, for, unlike braceros (from Mexico), they are not protected by treaty regulations. Navajos are cheap; they keep their mouths shut and they do as they are told. When the season ended at Burley, Idaho, a Navajo beet picker named Kee Chee dumbly obeyed orders to get his family on a chartered bus for the long ride home to New Mexico-even though it meant taking his sick, seven-month-old daughter out of a hospital at nearby Bear River City, Utah...
...rich and sparsely-settled Peace River district, wheat grows 73 bushels to an acre (1950 national average 17.1), and the region is fertile enough to support another million farmers, more than the province's present population. Canneries have moved to southern Alberta, where Canada's sugar-beet industry is centered and the country's tastiest melons and vegetables are grown on irrigated fields...
...Budapest String Quartet played three Beet-hoven quartets to a large and receptive Sanders Theatre audience yesterday afternoon. The Quartet played with thorough understanding and calmness, although always conveying the music's excitement...
...much to eat and my mamma sick and can't work and she has no clothes. She has to go bair footed . . . Maybe if the sloon man reads my letter he won't sell daddy any more whisky, and then daddy won't come home and beet my mamma and us kids any more...
...fearful, Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan got out a special report to prove how shortsighted and unnecessary hoarding was. In sugar, for example, the U.S. has on hand 1,200,000 tons, and could tap at any time another 1,000,000 tons of Cuban sugar. Moreover, the beet and cane crops to be harvested in the U.S. this year would reach nearly 2,500,000 tons...