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...what the Government would or could do for farmers. What makes Building America unique is the extraordinary illustrations that tell the story so well that they need little explanatory text. Notably communicative photographs in Our Farmers include a grimy farmer drinking water from a tin cup beside his tractor, Tip Estes' family of eight sitting down to dinner, three farmers talking things over in the general store, a group of striking farmers fleeing from tear gas, the fingers of erosion tearing away the soil...
From a Georgia banker: "One of these days the tractor and the mechanical picker are going to catch up with cotton, but by that time it's going to be too late to help the tenant farmer. . . . What it all adds up to is that cotton has ruined ten million people living in the cotton States, and it's going to ruin a lot more before it's through. . . . Some nights I can't sleep at all for lying awake wondering what's go- ing to happen...
...inherited a share in a down-at-heel farm, with a $2,431 mortgage, 203 acres of depleted soil and almost no equipment. He persuaded his three brothers and two sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors' grain. In his first year out of high school, where he had stood fourth in his class...
Everyone knows that the next seven weeks are morally certain to see another Rightist offensive against Madrid. Around Gijon, last Leftist territory on the Bay of Biscay, there was much less than seven weeks to go. Snow was already under the tractor treads of the slowly advancing Rightist tanks; fogs and rains made aerial bombing almost impossible. Whipped on by El Caudillo ("The Chief") Franco's demands that "Gijon must fall before the snow," Rightist troops did capture a vitally important strategic peak on the Gijon front, but the city was still 30 miles of rough terrain from...
...Steel: a Tragedy" makes God a tractor...