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In 1938, while working on Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck wrote in his journal: "I must one day write a book about my people [family]." He got around to it in 1951. Steinbeck's intention was to write a story that would tell his sons, now aged eight and six...
When lettuce prices tumbled from $6 to $2.25 a crate last month, the growers of California's Salinas Valley, the "Salad Bowl of America," started plowing under half their big crop. For a few days, the plan worked fine. As lettuce became scarcer, prices stabilized. But then the Justice...
Eighty freshman football candidates, hailing from such towns as Salinas, California and Exeter, New Hampshire, and most points in between, reported to coach Henry Lamar for first workouts Friday.
For their $5¼ million, De Bretteville and friends got assets which they estimate at $10 million. Among them: ¶Half-interest in the Spreckels Sugar Co. with its three California beet-sugar plants (including the nation's largest), and its 14,000 acres of land, most of it...
I met Henderson in Salinas at a Joint Council of Local 78, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Workers, last summer. He resembles Elsenhower, is very charming and an excellent speaker--but he does not speak for labor. After being with him in saloons and at council tables I decided he was...