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[[left margin]] On the farms [[/left margin]]

farmer is loading a T-model ford truck with farm produce for the market. He looks dubiously down the road, then climbs into the the [[/strikethrough]] Ford and begins a long trek through the mud. We see him at intervals [[strikethrough]] farther and farther away, joggling and splashing along the almost impassable road.

Meanwhile, the narrator begins: "This is how we live - 40,000,000 of us. This is how we work. Our wives must drudge. Our children in the [[strikethrough]]country are far from schools. In the cities they face [[strikethrough]] the hazards of sickness and traffic crowded streets. We work hard. We pay rent. But we must live in the cast-off sections of cities, in the shambling rows of mill-towns, in suburbs [[strikethrough]] wherin our homes and belongings are in constant jeopardy ---"

The Ford jogs out of sight. We return [[strikethrough]]to the employment office where men are now filing more and more rapidly past the personnel man, who hands to each an employment slip.

The narrator continues: "40,000,000 of us - factory workers, mechanics, clerks, office workers, storekeepers, farmers - eager to work and live, needing homes, needing security, anxious for the welfare [[strikethrough]]and happiness of our families, wanting stability, wanting to take our place in a community -"

The next scene is on the greenbelt project. Trains and busses disgorge scores of men. A new voice begins: "40,000,000 of them! Average Americans who need homes. Private industry has shunned them. Their income level is too