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...many places with the aid of high-school boys & girls. In San Francisco, where it has been planned to have students trained as urban firefighters, high schools opened only to recess for a week after 2,600 students and teachers volunteered to help in California's desperately shorthanded harvest...
Meanwhile U.S. students, geography-conscious as never before, learned last week that in many parts of Russia only the lower grades of school opened; high school would not begin until after the harvest. In Kuibyshev, children spent the first few days of school painting walls and bringing in fuel for the winter...
...Harvest. At Hutchinson, Kans., James Redd gloomed when Cow Creek flooded his farm, brightened when he harvested $200 worth of lost balls washed from a neighboring golf course...
What Hadger Corgiladze did, millions of other peasants were doing throughout Russia: fighting a desperate battle of food. The 1942 harvest was in full swing. In southern Russia wheat-threshing machines hummed within earshot of tank battles. Near Stalingrad harvesters toiled around the clock to bring in ripened grain before the Nazi blight grew closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened...
Though approximately one-fourth of Russia's 240 million acres of farmland had been overrun by the Germans, there were about 40 million fewer mouths to feed (those left in occupied areas and those who had died). Final harvest figures were far from complete, but they seemed the best in years, assuring Russia of at least as much food as last year. Beamed the Moscow News: "The Soviet countryside succeeded not only in coping with the increased state plan for grain, vegetables and industrial crops, but also in topping it on a scale in excess of the most optimistic...