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...California agriculture is a taut, highly organized, high-speed industry, requiring large numbers of skilled and semiskilled workmen-as well as untrained migrants -workmen to trim, grade and pack its produce, fill its refrigerator cars in no time, get its highly perishable fruit from tree to market without loss. (Apricots must be picked in 14 to 16 hours or the grower stands to 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...
...Chez Paree, on Chicago's North Side, trim, blonde, blue-eyed Dorothy Laxon, 22, of Minneapolis, told her tale. She took up dancing at 12, got her stage start five years ago with one of Packer George A. Hormel's traveling shows to advertise Hormel meat products. Rather than risk winding up her career as a Spam actress, Dorothy sent her picture to Chez Paree, has been one of 17 girls in the line there for four years. Dorothy's ambition: a chance in a Broadway show...
Monday at 9:30 a. m., Il Duce's trim train pulled in at the little mountain village of Brennero, in the famed Brenner Pass, just over the German border in Italy. Forty minutes later the Führer's train arrived in a driving snow storm...
...since the fighting forebears of Brian Boroihme put to sea in currachs against Britain a millennium and a half ago has Ireland had a navy of any account. Until one day this winter, when the flag of Eire broke out at the stern of the trim, new, 50-knot torpedo boat, M1, independent Eire had no Navy at all. Even then, Eire got this ship from the British, the Government having ordered six such craft from British shipbuilders for coast-watching and general marine service...
...years U. S. paint manufacturers have tried to sell homeowners the virtues of paint instead of wallpaper. Their difficulty was that housewives couldn't visualize from a color card what their walls and trim would look like after paint was on. With wallpaper they could take home sample books and see for themselves. To overcome this handicap, Cleveland's big Sherwin-Williams Co. launched an ambitious $250,000 project...