Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICAN HARVEST, Twenty Years of Creative Writing in the United States -Edited by Allen Tafe and John Peale Bishop-Fischer...
...examples of American creative writing packed into American Harvest's 533 pages are being translated into Spanish and Portuguese and will be published in South America under the aegis of the Rockefeller Committee...
...situation was doubly shameful because no one could treat the food problem as a disastrous Act of God. The harvest year 1942 was the most bounteous since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less exotic foodstuffs. (Examples: caviar, anchovies, patée de fois gras.) Thus, with reason, all over the land the U.S. housewife and her menfolk were beginning to ask: How come a bottleneck in the middle of a horn of plenty? But there was no one bottleneck. There were nine...
These farms and acres, machines and animals need some twelve million hard workers to keep them going. A year ago. the Agriculture Department urged farmers to produce as never before. Then farm help was plentiful. But as the crops bloomed into harvest the draft and juicy war jobs started taking farm people away. About 570,000 left farms in 1940. More than 1,000,000 left in 1941. By seeding time next spring, an estimated 1,300,000 more will have gone. Now farmers can no longer tend all their acres, milk all their cows. They must somehow reduce operations...
...evening last fortnight Governor John Moses broadcast a desperate message to North Dakota's citizens. For want of harvest hands, one of the lushest crops in the State's history-millions of bushels of wheat and potatoes and tons of sugar beets-might rot in the fields...