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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...
...regard to the quality of the food purchased, it must be pointed out that the elaborate and diverse grading system used in the wholesale food trade makes both price comparison and quality estimate a difficult talk. Harvard does not buy the finest or "luxury" grade of foods. But the food purchased for the dining halls is good...
...Last week, for the Ides of March, Rudy was Caesar, Una Merkel Calpurnia, and Maxie one Slapsimus Maximus, a Caesarian stooge. In Rudy's Rome the WPA built the Appian Way, and Caesar avoided assassination by putting the Ides of March off till the vacated Thanksgiving date. Not Grade A to date, the show this week offers Pocahontas and Captain John Smith...
Great Britain, which had not won a diplomatic hand from Italy for years, stood pat. German exports as well as imports are under a confiscation ban, she serenely pointed out. No exceptions could be made. Furthermore, Italy did not necessarily need to import German coal when high grade Welsh or U. S. coal could be had in unlimited quantities. Nor would going to war with England provide coal for Italian factories and fireplaces. It would shut off the supply completely. Il Duce was indeed in a tight spot...
...grade-A. Author and cast took the cut and dried characters and unstocked them with a vengence. Siren Bennett gives out more laughs than heat-waves. Hero John Hubbard is slightly half-witted. Sleuth-reporter Menjou finds no clues, "reconstructed the crime" only once, and terrified gangland with a barrage of firecrackers. The whole picture is an uproarious burlesque on all murder-newsroom sex quickies past, present, and future...