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...road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were the bad years, and the Okies-300,000 of them-were hungry for work. Desolate, they moved from harvest to harvest-scrounging food for emaciated children, bedding down in farm shacks or U.S. Government emergency camps, harried by highway patrolmen and sheriffs' deputies-to become a symbol in fact and fiction of the desperate injustices wrought by drought and Depression...
...Middle East. Russia's callous manipulation of Syria for its own ends alarmed as many Arabs as it impressed. In the satellites, Poland's army is still restive. At home, the virgin lands Khrushchev plowed for grain are Russia's dust bowl; in 1957 they yielded a much lower harvest than the year before. At the same time that he promised a lot more housing and clothing, he boosted the goals of Communism's sacred heavy industry yet higher; by September he was forced to postpone the goals by scrapping the five-year plan for a seven-year plan ending...
There was no longer much doubt that harried Ezra Benson is going to run up against sharp pitchforks on Capitol Hill in the session just ahead. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that, with improved moisture conditions in prospect, 1958's winter wheat harvest will run a glutting 28% bigger than 1957's. But far from taking the wheat forecast as further evidence that the high price-support approach has failed (TIME, Dec. 23), Chairman Harold D. Cooley of the House Agriculture Committee declared that Benson "won't get to first base" with his proposal to lower...
...items as the farm program and aid to veterans, but few politicos think it will be successful. If anything, spending on the farm program-a huge $5 billion in 1957-may rise in 1958 to keep surplus food from collapsing the market. At year's end the 1958 harvest of the winter wheat crop was estimated at a near record of 906 million bu., 28% above the year before and one more sad reminder of the failure of the farm program to cut surpluses. With revenues estimated at $73.5 billion-or less-next year and a budget...
...March, indicated at right. The "Golden Numbers" at left form a table of the lunar cycles from which Easter and the movable Feast Days can be determined for any given year. Below are delightful vignettes of contemporary 16th century life, showing cardplaying in winter, early planting in March, harvest in July and cattle-slaughtering in October. Although a minor art, such miniature scenes are precious records of everyday secular life over the changing seasons. As such, it pushed forth a hardy sprout in succeeding centuries, blossoming into the full-scale landscapes and genre scenes that along with classical allegory...