Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around Salinas, Calif., the dark, rich soil is crossed with vivid green avenues of lettuce that stretch almost unbroken from one side of the valley to the other. On the south they end at the base of dry, rocky hills. On the north they end at the shining waters of Monterey Bay, where coves and inlets penetrate, unseen until a watcher is almost upon them, between the level cultivated fields. At the height of the season the 4,500 pickers who swarm over these fields, to take from them their average annual yield of 500,000,000 heads of lettuce...
...Salinas, as to most California agricultural communities, swarms of migrants began to come early in Depression. They were Okies. They swarmed over the State in vast tidal waves, drawn by reports of men needed for the cantaloupe harvest in the Imperial Valley, foe cotton picking in the San Joaquin Valley, for the asparagus and celery of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta...
Since migrants began to pour into California, growers and migrants have faced a crisis each season with bitter strikes in the Imperial valley in 1933-34, Salinas in 1936, Stockton in 1937, Madera County in 1939. Whether or not they face another in the next six months, there was no question that the attitude toward migrants has changed...
...same time, Arthur S. Flemming, member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, will lead another round table on "Careers in State and Federal Civil Service," while Arthur S. Jandrey, director of Personnel of the Tennessee Valley Authority, will preside over a conference on "Jobs in Large Scale Federal Agencies: The T.V.A...
Built with $750,000 of the fortune young Joseph Ryan inherited from his grandfather, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Mont Tremblant is considered the Sun Valley of the East. It boasts a mile-long chair tow, guests like Doris Duke Cromwell, who recently skipped a dinner date with Belgium's Minister to Canada because "the skiing was too good...