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...into newspaper ads, radio programs and mass meetings, all adding up to a demand that the President veto it. In Pennsylvania and Indiana, 17,000 of Jonn Lewis' mine workers walked out in protest strikes. From California, A.F.L. and C.I.O. delegates moved on Washington in a "veto caravan" of 100 autos; they hoped to stage an eleventh-hour demonstration at the White House...
...they worked, Farmer Morrison, short, fat and overalled, wore a worried look. The harvest of his months-long labor was in the hands of an outsider: Thomas L. Dupree, a big (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (228 lbs.) tramp harvester who had come in from Kansas with his caravan of combines, trucks and harvest hands. But Morrison's worries were nearly over. Swiftly, Dupree and his crew cut the grain, loaded it into their trucks, and hauled it to the elevator a few miles away. When a crack in the truck body let out a thin trickle of wheat...
...informal business, tend to keep a tight lip about their profits. But a man like Dupree may gross as much as $40,000 between March and September 15. Working ten hours a day, five days a week (with two days out for traveling or bad weather), Dupree's caravan will cut 80 to 100 acres a day, at $3 and up an acre plus fees for haulage to elevators...
...Freshman Union will not be open for diners this summer, what with construction of the Lamont Library and all. Yard dwellers, along with Winthrop residents, will have to trek over to Kirkland for their meals. Men from Claverly and Leverett will form a gourmet's caravan to Eliot while Dunster and Adams do the same thing to Lowell. In all, only three dining halls will operate during the summer months...
...Bishop's statement said that, at 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, he was in the Yellow Cab Co. office when he heard talk "about going over to Pickens . . . to get the Negro who had cut Mr. Brown." The drivers bought whiskey, drank a lot of it. Soon a caravan of cabs was on its way to Pickens...