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...Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation...
WICHITA. Four years ago, this community's fortunes were so high that its main problem was finding enough workers to accept its jobs. A bustling producer of meat, wheat, planes, oil and gas, Wichita (pop. 279,000) had the remarkably low unemployment rate of 2.8%. With rows of aerospace plants and enormous grain elevators rising from the prairies, it exuded a robust self-confidence. But the aircraft industry, as well as others, nosedived. More than 20,000 workers were laid off, and the unemployment rate is now 8.5%. "If we can just get people through the next...
OCCUPATION: Cattle rancher: Wheat farmer...
Miroslaw Macierzynski, 30, is a farmer in a village 45 miles south of Warsaw. On his twelve-acre farm he grows potatoes, wheat and fodder for his three milk cows and two plow horses. He would rather move to the city and get a job as a mason, but his wife Ewa thinks the country life is better for their two sons...
...some cases, a farmer could in effect sell the same crop twice. He could grow wheat on land he kept in production, sell it to the Government at the support price, get it back in payment for the acreage he had idled-perhaps before the wheat had left his farm-and resell it on the open market...