Thomas Chalmers: Narrator
Quotes
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Narrator : The grass lands. A treeless, wind-swept continent of grass. Stretching from the broad Texas panhandle up through the mountain reaches of Montana to the Canadian border. A country of high winds and sun. High winds and sun. Without rivers, without streams... with little rain.
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Narrator : The plowman followed the herder - and the pioneer came to the plains. Make way for the plowman.
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Narrator : They fought the loneliness and the hard years. - - The rains failed them.
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Narrator : Wheat for the boys Over There! Wheat for the Allies! Wheat for the British! Wheat for the Belgians! Wheat for the French! Wheat at any price! Wheat will win the War!
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Narrator : Blown out, baked out, and broke.
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Narrator : Nothing to stay for. Nothing to hope for. Homeless, penniless, and bewildered, they joined the great army of the highway. No place to go and no place to stop. Nothing to eat. Nothing to do. Their homes on four wheels. Their work, a desperate gamble for a day's labor in the fields along the highway. The price of a sack of beans or a tank of gas. All they ask is a chance to start over and a chance for their children to eat. To have medical care. To have homes again. Fifty thousand a month.
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Narrator : [Last lines] The sun and winds wrote the most tragic chapter in American agriculture.
