Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breathitt's 21,600 inhabitants, 15,000 are on relief. Only 700 have WPA jobs, and that number is about to be cut. Mostly Breathitt reliefers live on insufficient Federal surplus commodities (corn grits, flour, lima beans, lard, prunes, raisins, apples in a good month; little but grapefruit-"sour oranges"-in bad months...
...Schwede, and Burgey Ayres are the main reasons for current optimism concerning the mound staff, and the tough Southern trip should provide plenty of work for them. Northern nines that have no opportunity for outside work until they head southward for vacation trips find keen competition in the collegiate grapefruit circles there...
...Southerners with emotions and water pipes alike close to the surface, with houses built for warmer winters and with crops like oranges, lettuce, satsumas, grapefruit still unharvested, it was a week of sore trial-a week of raw winds, raw tempers, busted water pipes, frozen radiators, sniffles, skids, tumbles-a week of frustration when auto-supply houses ran out of tire chains, when hot-water heaters blew up, trains were late, mails delayed, and cases of influenza (10,000 in North Louisiana) closed schools that few children could reach. Snowbound New Englanders of Whittier's day might be undisturbed...