Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years the weather had been bountiful: mild winters kind to the wheat, gentle springs for the fruit trees, heavy rains to soak the land in midsummer, long autumns to get the harvest in. Now farmers, with a prayer on their lips, scanned the skies to see what 1943 had in store...
...which is already on its way to reducing agricultural output for 1943. Although the President has predicted that 3,000,000 farm workers will be deferred by the end of the year, little short of a labor freeze can stop them from transferring to more remunerative essential industries. Military harvest furloughs and a Land Army of unskilled women and children can not hope to replace the experienced farmers who have compared their daily average wage of $3 with the $6 pay check of inexperienced shipbuilding labor, and have answered Henry Kaiser's full-page advertisement. Yet Davis can only knock...
...million people have moved out along this route since fall, by now probably 10,000 a day are drifting along westward. Of Honan's 34 millions we estimated that there have been three million refugees. In addition, five million will have died by the time the new harvest is gathered...
...this vital war area is supported entirely by local foods collected as grain taxes. Civilian officials also each get a monthly quota of grain. The Government people hoped the fall crops of millet corn would meet the needs of the peasantry. But no rain fell and the autumn harvest was almost a total loss...
...Last week one film, Random Harvest, broke all records for a single house: in an eleven-week run (one week longer than Mrs. Miniver) at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, it had played to more than 1,550,000 people. Another Manhattan record: Star Spangled Rhythm finished an eight-week run, longest in the huge Paramount Theater's history. Yankee Doodle Dandy ran 27 weeks on Broadway; Casablanca was in its 15th...