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Tag: great depression

hobo hieroglyphics chart detail
September 15, 2011 Hobo life

Riding the Rails

For most of the young transients, riding the rails would not become a way of life. After a while, you knew you had to get on with your life.

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933 paid farmers subsidies to keep some crops off the market
February 28, 2007 Farmers/farming / Politics

The AAA can just about send you to AA

The AAA was supposed to buy “submarginal” farmlands & resettle farm families on better farms elsewhere. It didn’t work out that way.

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February 1, 2007 Farmers/farming

17,400 pounds of string

Pull odds & ends of string from butcher’s packages, or the morning newspaper ties, and create yourself a Big Ball of String to tap as needed.

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