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...postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from 67 to 26. Since the early 19403, the average U.S. farm investment per worker has soared from $3,500 to more than $15,000. This technological explosion has made the small, unmechanized farm economically obsolete...
...seemed. By the time the lawyers finish with its loopholes, it will probably cover at least 200,000 fewer employees than the old Fair Labor Standards Act. The old bill affected workers "necessary" to production of goods in interstate commerce; the new one applies to the approximate onethird of the U.S. working force which is "directly essential" to production in interstate commerce. Specifically excluded are farm laborers, newspaper carriers, small telephone, telegraph, newspaper and logging operations; employees of most local stores and laundries...
...even appearing male. The action, so swift that it becomes uneventful, embraces Bunny's biography to his enlightened midtwenties and the father's up to his death in Europe as an oil-smeared refugee from U. S. justice. The properties are conscientiously collected and arranged in about onethird of the book but Author Sinclair evidently got weary of the creative task he had set himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay...