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...body was what remained of 35-year-old Leon McAtee who had been locked up in Holmes County jail four days before on suspicion of stealing a saddle from a white planter named Jeff Dodd. After Dodd had pleaded that he needed McAtee to help harvest his corn crop, the sheriff released him to Dodd on payment of $15.25 jail costs. Then Jeff Dodd, his son and some neighbors led Leon McAtee down to the pasture...
Canada was almost certain to arrive within 10% of its 550 million bushel record of 1942. Turkey was harvesting 35 million bushels more grain than last year. France's North African Empire, last year the scene of food riots, was doing so well by now that it expected to send up to 20 million bushels of surplus wheat and barley to the home country. France herself looked forward to a 295 million bushel wheat harvest, which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped...
This was his 37th winter wheat harvest on this land; he has never missed one since, at 15, he went to work these fields with his father. Now his 19-year-old son, Franklin III (Jack to everyone except his parents), was there to help. The Navy had given him a 20-day harvest leave...
...harvest; by next week Kansas farmers will have reaped about 215,000,000 bushels of wheat-one-fifth of the nation's estimated crop, four-fifths of the wheat the U.S. has pledged to the world's hunger areas in the coming crop year...
...work shirt, grease-stained overalls and high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke his two harvest hands: 36-year-old Harold Robb and 18-year-old Fay Everett...