Florida farmers appeal for labor to cultivate crops which lie spoiling in the fields. Meanwhile draft officials in Florida. forced to defer farming and forestry key workers. hear that 20.000 more workers are required to maintain Florida farm production near normal. Meanwhile the State Department. the War Manpower Commission. and the immigration authorities study a proposal to import Bahama islanders to supply agricultural labor for Florida. Meanwhile the Farm Security Administration is attempting to recruit a mobile land army to save the sugar. citrus. and garden farms of Florida. Little wonder that Army engineers recommended that no funds be provided for the "chasm. which has split the State of Florida." Then there is the cost of this canal to the taxpayers of the Nation.
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