Word: harvester
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...Black walnuts, gathered at harvest time, cracked at 627 Ibs. But after 135 days in warm moist earth their breaking point fell...
...pelado class (literally, "the peeled ones"), and Canuto counted himself fortunate. But it was nothing like the $7 a day he had made during the war as one of 300,000 braceros (day laborers) that Mexico sent to the U.S. to work on railroads and to harvest crops. Canute's eyes clouded when he thought of the U.S.-the rich farming land, the cities, the shoes, the-canned chicken soup he had liked so much...
...discrimination in the U.S. He would like to go back, perhaps to California, if he could take his family with him, settle down and send his children to U.S. schools. But in Mexico, despite a new agreement to send 54,000 braceros north for this year's U.S. harvest, there is agitation to halt further export of labor. Mexican labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano asserted that Mexico itself needs the braceros. Others argued that this export of Mexican labor would lower production of Mexico's foodstuffs. There were other implications. During the war Canuto and his comrades earned...
Strength for Harvest...
...little better, but last winter the big drought parched the land. This spring, Innocenzo again stood in his field, clad in his army uniform (the only clothes he had), but he did not seem to be able to work as he used to. "How to get through to harvest time?" he asked. "How to get enough strength to work the land till then...