Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours to get set for the impact. From Miami to Palm Beach, store fronts were boarded up, windows shuttered, shelters made ready. Out of Pahokee, in the Okeechobee farmlands, chugged two evacuation trains, carrying 5,000 refugees. Another 10,000 headed upstate in a bumper-to-bumper auto caravan...
...more reason for a meeting between the two outfits is that it might be a fine football battle. Havens has in his 45 man caravan four ends, five tackles, and five guards, and a formidable center named John Kern who tips the scales...
...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...