Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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, cantaloupes, onions, tomatoes, cherries, pears and apples in midsummer, culminating in the harvest of fruit in the early fall that requires 145,000 seasonal workers in one month. Relatively few are the wandering Joads hired from the highway: to ship its 24,000 carloads of lettuce. Salinas pays some $78,000 in wages for car-loaders, $73,500 to the lidders who clamp lids on some 7,000.000 crates...
...Hitler, as he proved in his seizures of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, has a great knack of doing his grabbing where the western powers cannot get hold of him. The Axis still protects his southern frontier, Russia his eastern frontier. The Westwall guards his western frontier and the fall of Finland has made him safe from attack in the north. His vulnerable quarter is the southeast...
Varsity football was dropped at Chicago after a series of disappointing season that was climaxed last fall by a 63-0 loss to Harvard...
Designed to replace the Faculty except for the awarding of degrees, the Council was a small representative group. This fall, however, it was suspended and regular, full Faculty meetings restored. The new committee is trying to provide a more workable substitute for these...
Since board costs are such an important part of every student's expenses in college, and since the quality of the food he eats affects his health and ability to work, the Student Council last fall appointed a committee to investigate complaints from students about both the quality and cost of meals in the House Dining Halls. As far as the Committee knows, this is the first time any such investigation has been undertaken...