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In 1974 the rural mail carrier drove his own car, bought his own gas, and was paid by the measured mile and the counted box rather than by…
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In 1964 a rural American school raised money by auctioning boxed suppers, and the thing being sold was not the food.
Each woman and girl packed a meal…
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In 1974 a farm ended in one afternoon, in its own yard, in front of everybody.
Sale bills went up on the feed store wall and the post…
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In 1964 a canvas tent would go up in a field at the edge of an American town, and for a week or two weeks there was something…
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In 1974 an American school raised money by sending its children out to collect newspapers.
It was announced as a competition between classrooms with the standings posted weekly.…
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It was a room. Sometimes an actual office with a window and a counter, sometimes a desk in a corner of a plant, sometimes a card table in…