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...rabbity couple meet at a dance, flee that night to the woods to become trappers. Unmarried, dogged by hard luck in the shape of game wardens, Federal agents, swindlers, nature, they try fishing, working for a Yankee fruit grower, moonshining, end their hard luck odyssey right where they started...
Little Oklahoma. Watching the coming of the Okies as closely as Novelist Steinbeck was a Salinas grower named Elton Hebbron, a middleaged, easygoing man who owned about 120 rolling acres east of Salinas that could not be profitably farmed. He cut it up into small lots, sold it to migrants for $300 to $400 a lot on easy terms, made money. By 1935 the plot was a swarming, crowded, unsightly assemblage of trailers, tents, rusting jalopies, shacks, like innumerable other Little Oklahomas beside farm towns...
...large numbers of skilled and semiskilled workmen-as well as untrained migrants -workmen to trim, grade and pack its produce, fill its refrigerator cars in no time, get its highly perishable fruit from tree to market without loss. (Apricots must be picked in 14 to 16 hours or the grower stands to lose his year's work.) This month the season for California's migrants begins in earnest. From now through September, maturing crops will pull men over the highways as the sun ripens successively the asparagus, cantaloupes, onions, tomatoes, cherries, pears and apples in midsummer, culminating...
...ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production itself, therefore are constitutional. Also affected: cotton, corn, wheat, rice...
...violence spreads, Perse's lovely wife leaves him. His affair with the sensual daughter of his good friend, Mr. Christian, ends bitterly. He defends a grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent man. The Association fails, and so does Perse: "The reason for things is gone. . . . Like flood water going down and leaving trash and stuff up in a tree...