Word: delair
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Thanks for the capital article on Farmer Delair [TIME, March 2]; it can be multiplied many times throughout our land. I keep thinking, however, of the obvious contrast to this fine example-the men (& women too maybe) who wouldn't put in a good day's work without "double time on Sundays and time & a half for Saturdays...
After the meal, while dishes rattled in the kitchen, Farmer Delair smoked the new pipe his wife gave him for a Valentine. As the sky grew lighter, he went outside with son Ralph Jr., who had stayed home from Ople High School to help Hired Hand James Dieker...
...hour's work; by noon, when they went back for dinner of steak & potatoes, they had nearly finished some fields. By week's end a full 200 acres would be sown to oats-oats that would be harvested in July, fed to the sleek steers that Ralph Delair ships off to the markets...
...Ralph Delair stayed in the fields until the sun had sunk over the low hills in the west. Then he milked his cow again, fed his stock, covered the tractors for the night, ate a supper of roast beef, potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...
...Farmer Delair had put in a good day's work. It had been a good day's work for the whole U.S., for all the lands that need American food...