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Fourth Voice. — The corner was turned, the long-promised comer.
Fifth Voice. — To be sure, prosperity was not around that comer.
Sixth Voice. — But the road to recovery was.
Narrator. — The upswing began. The government maintained an average monthly employment of 2 million, making work for women as well as men, for professional, technical and other “white collar” workers as well as skilled and unskilled laborers.
Second Narrator. — And in the meantime, the many other ramifications of relief went on.
Music.
Narrator. — In the hot and dry summer of 1934, the blasting, rainless winds again blew down across the high plains of middle America, scorching and shriveling the meager grass, blowing the topsoil into hideous unlivable dust storms, threatening the vast cattle herds of the West with starvation.
Second Narrator. — Into this emergency the government stepped.
Voice. — The Agricultural Adjustment Administration is hereby authorized to buy 6 million head of cattle from the ranges in the drought area.
Second Voice. — Why?
Voice. — To help the farmer and to feed the unemployed.
Narrator. — And that summer, nearly 100 million potmds of fresh meat and over 200 million pounds of canned meat were distributed to vmemployed American citizens.
Music. — Southern tune . . . quasi blues.
Narrator. — Along the banks of the Mississippi River and East to the Appalachian Mountains and West into Texas lies the cotton belt of the American South.
Here, for generations, plantation owners and tenant farmers have sown and planted and picked only one crop . . . cotton.
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