Word: migrant
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...apple pickers. Tons of prime Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Winesaps, Jonathans and Newtowns seemed doomed to rot on the ground, depriving the U.S. of one-quarter of the 1944 apple crop. By last week an untrained army of 36.000 men, women & children (house wives, clerks, merchants, students, Mexicans, migrant farm workers, Indians off their reservations) battled time and the weather to save the apples. Public schools were closed...
...jobless the benefits, which range from $2 to $22 a week. Then the money is to be lent, not given. Even these benefits are so hedged that the 3,600,000 federal employes, including thousands in U.S.-owned arsenals and shipyards, are left out in the cold. So are migrant war workers. The House trampled on a Senate proposal for the Federal Government to pay up to $200 a family to bring stranded workers back to their home towns...
...when the European war ends and the United Nations' power shifts to the Pacific, the West Coast needs will be even greater. WMC tightened up on job transfers, made many a migrant sit idle for 60 days after he trekked back from the West. But these were straws on the flood. The desertions went...
...time. The Public Health Service says that the current rabies outbreak is no worse than usual-so far. But it is potentially more dangerous because of the wartime increase in stray dogs. Rabies flare-ups are concentrated where busy working people let dogs run all day and where migrant populations leave their dogs behind them...
...farm leader who was willing to take this stand has played his cards shrewdly, honestly; once a migrant farm hand, he has put himself well within the New Deal's inner fold...