Betty B.
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3,598 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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In the France I am seeing, every patch is clean and of even richness.
The whole nation is working for the new France, especially on the farms.
Everyone in the family is out in the fields, and they work from sunrise to sunset.
I see many women at work.
They hoe and weed the beets and the turnips, they labor in the hay fields loading the carts, and they push wheelbarrows filled with all sorts of farm produce over the roads.
They even do much of the rough work of buildings.
This afternoon I saw four lusty maidens throwing bricks from one to another on the top of a great brick pile outside one of the towns.
A little farther on, a bareheaded old woman was pushing a wheelbarrow, and in the fields by the side of the roads, boys of 12 and 14 were aiding the harvesters.
The same sort of hard work is going on in all the towns and the cities.
The municipalities are buzzing like bees after swarming, and men and women and boys are
toiling long hours at their various jobs i spent yesterday in armentier going through some of the rebuilt cotton and linen factories there the city lies within a pistol shot of the border of belgium at the outbreak of the war it had forty spinning and weaving mills these were all destroyed much of their machinery as well as all of the copper and brass fittings was carried over the rhine into germany some of the smokestacks were blown up so that they fell on the buildings
and thus aided in their destruction.
What happened there was typical of the ruined industrial centers.
The region is almost altogether given up to textiles.
Before the war, more than two-thirds of the woolen spindles of France were in the invaded districts, and a great part of the linen spindles and looms.
The Germans took away more than a half million linen spindles and four million cotton spindles.
They sent home 15,000 cotton looms and a greater number of looms suited to linens.
They destroyed about $32 million worth of combing machinery and spinning machinery to the value of another $12 million.
They blew up or carried away the machinery of the bleaching, dyeing, and ironing plants.
It is said that the loss in the textile industries alone totaled upward of $2 billion.
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