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Slowly his luck turned better. He rented five acres of desert land near Bakersfield, began raising hogs. Each night after work, he made the rounds of town restaurants, gathering swill to feed the pigs. With money earned from the hog sales, Roberts bought 15 acres for cotton, potatoes and alfalfa. After each day's work in the oilfields, he irrigated his crops; on hot summer nights he would lie down to sleep at the end of an irrigation furrow in his alfalfa field, and when the water got far enough down the furrow to lap at his body...
...farm full time. "If you want to start over, we'll start over," said his wife Manon. "If your heart's set on farming, you go right ahead." Every month he sent his Texas banker a $22 installment to pay off his Chevy loan. The cotton-gin owners liked him and staked him, and Roberts surged ahead. Today Cotton Rancher Roberts, with 7,000 acres, half owned, half leased, lives with his wife and two daughters in a $100,000 ranch home near McFarland, has a spread of comforts as wide as his cotton yield: a color...
Nothing has held the valley back: in the years since the first struggle to master the desert, Okie farmers big and small, along with the natives, have made San Joaquin Valley responsible for 92% of California's cotton crop (1957 estimated total: 11 million bales) and California the second biggest (after Texas) cotton-producing state in the nation. Valley land, once for sale at $150 an acre, now goes...
Armed with a pistol, a fervent young woman named Chin Lan Tse patrols the dikes that protect her village's cotton fields from the waters of the Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into...
Only a month earlier, No. 1 Communist Nikita Khrushchev, in an interview with a Brazilian Communist newspaperman, had plugged for a booming trade that would exchange Brazil's coffee, cocoa, hides, sugar and cotton for such manufactured goods as "oil-well-drilling equipment and automobiles." The trade offers, suspiciously similar, were aimed at a big target: a country with 100,000 Communist Party members and enough party-liners to swing a tight election. They were shrewdly directed at sensitive areas such as Petrobras, of which the public is fiercely proud. Publicly, Petrobras was cool to the Torgbraz offers...