Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salinas, as to most California agricultural communities, swarms of migrants began to come early in Depression. They were Okies. They swarmed over the State in vast tidal waves, drawn by reports of men needed for the cantaloupe harvest in the Imperial Valley, foe cotton picking in the San Joaquin Valley, for the asparagus and celery of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta...
...lose his year's work.) This month the season for California's migrants begins in earnest. From now through September, maturing crops will pull men over the highways as the sun ripens successively the asparagus, cantaloupes, onions, tomatoes, cherries, pears and apples in midsummer, culminating in the harvest of fruit in the early fall that requires 145,000 seasonal workers in one month. Relatively few are the wandering Joads hired from the highway: to ship its 24,000 carloads of lettuce. Salinas pays some $78,000 in wages for car-loaders, $73,500 to the lidders who clamp...
Last summer Chicago's mammoth International Harvester Co., No. i U. S. farm implement manufacturer, belatedly entered the booming small-implement market with a new, light tractor selling at $515, or $225 cheaper than any previous International model. Fortnight ago it caught up with the sensationally successful market in small combines (which harvest and thresh crops in a single operation as they move through fields) by introducing a 4-ft. model priced at $405-cheapest in the U. S. save for Allis-Chalmers' 40-in., $340 combine which opened up the small-combine field five years...
...harvest last autumn uncounted thousands of women, children and old men marched into French fields. They worked as never before, but an early frost made speed imperative and lack of experienced man power was acutely felt. In many cases, partially gathered crops froze before they could be binned and much of the vintage was completely lost. Piles of rotted beets still lie along the roads of France. In Paris last week the cry "Man power on the farms in February and March for the spring sowing is as important as man power on the Maginot Line!" was raised by Parliamentary...
...picture deals with everyday U. S. types, casting was all-important. Key character was Ma Joad (Jane Darwell). If she was wrong, the picture could never be in focus. She is magnificent. Russell Simpson is owlish Pa Joad. He is also a million men who plough, seed and harvest U. S. farms. Only star used was Henry Fonda (Tom Joad). For him the part was a throwback to one of his best roles, the young lineman in Slim. Others like John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Zeffie Tilbury, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Frank Darien have played minor roles in pictures for years...