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...reported . . . there is a surplus of jobless Puerto Ricans in New York. So we proceed to fly several thousand more from Puerto Rico to Michigan, to harvest the sugar-beet crop for sugar which might better have been made from Puerto Rican cane in the first place...
Outside Los Angeles, on what was once a huge beet farm, Aetna Construction, Inc. and Biltmore Homes, Inc. are building 17,150 one-story houses, all monotonously arranged on a 3,500-acre gridiron, just about eight feet apart. The prices...
Michigan's $14 million sugar-beet crop had to be weeded by June 20 or the seedlings would choke; 6,000 Mexican-Americans from Texas were not enough to work the 140,000 acres. Last week, as the result of a bargain between Michigan farmers and the Puerto Rican government, help came out of the clouds. Nine times daily, four-engine transports picked up full loads of workers in Puerto Rico (a total of 5,050), ten hours later deposited them in the Saginaw Valley to work in the fields at $7 to $8 a day. The crop...
...what was once an old sugar-beet field ten miles southeast of Los Angeles, 30,000 people stampeded one day last week. They were there for the first sale of houses in Lakewood Park, the biggest U.S. housing project...
...auditorium of the Clarksville, Ark. high school, an audience of 1,600 applauded enthusiastically as Vienna-born Conductor Josef Blatt stepped onstage to conduct a concert of the Arkansas State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Blatt faced the audience, beet-red with embarrassment: "This is one of those things that happens once in a million times. The orchestra is here. I am here. But we left every scrap of our music in Little Rock . . . there will be no concert." Then he promised to bring the orchestra back two days later-with the music...