Word: eatonton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut (where one out of every three farmhands has quit) employment services began registering high-school and college students for summer farm work. Many an Illinois farmer harvested his asparagus crop by hiring high-school children in their spare hours. In Eatonton and some other Georgia towns, police rounded up street loafers, gave them their choice of going to work on farms or to jail. Moaned one farmer: "I'm begging now for the same sorry type of workers I would have run off my farm three years...