Word: farmhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoke Signal. Near Bari, Italy, Farmhand Donato Summa explained why he had flagged down the crack Rome-Bari train to speak to the engineer: he had been working in the fields for three hours without a smoke and needed a match...
...crashed on a farm below and burst into flames, killing twelve passengers and a crew of three-the first casualties on a scheduled U.S. airline since August 1948. The damaged fighter plane crashed seconds later. A farmhand saw its pilot-26-year-old Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Poe of Fairfax, Va.-jump out just before it hit, fall like a flipped stone, and die in a field with his chute unopened...
Long Hours. Irish-born S. S. McClure worked his way through Illinois' small Knox College as farmhand and peddler. Soon after graduation, he landed a job as editor of a new Boston cycling magazine, the Wheelman, then moved to the staff of the Century Magazine. McClure tried to convince his Century bosses that they should branch out, left when they vetoed his idea and launched the first successful U.S. newspaper syndicate himself. In 1893, on $2,800 in profits from the syndicate and a borrowed stake, McClure started his magazine. At its peak in 1906, Steffens, Tarbell, and Baker...
...cane. Old Mao was a fanner, prosperous enough to hire a laborer. Unlike many another farm lad who later followed him, and died for the rice and the faith he offered, young Mao never knew hunger. Nor did he know abundance. Once every month, old Mao would give his farmhand eggs with his rice, but no meat. Recalls Mao: "To me, he gave neither eggs nor meat...
...rest of Caldwell's characters are off the same near-caricature assembly line as Molly and Lily. For the perennial Jeeter-type there is Jethro, Putt's shiftless farmhand brother. The strait-laced minister's young wife has "vitamin" binges with Molly on the sly, finally runs off with a salesman. "He [Rev. Bigbee] won't even let me undress without turning out the lights, and I have to wear long-sleeved nightgowns that drag the floor. This morning as soon as he left I took off all my clothes and ran out into the backyard...