In New York City, Darryl F. Zanuck premieres “The Grapes of Wrath,” a motion picture based on the John Steinbeck novel, of the same name, published a year before.  The story is of a fictitious “Okie” family that loses their farm as an indirect result of the “Dust Bowl”—a condition aggravated by Federal agricultural and homestead policies—and moves west to the republic of california, where they seek work as migrant fruit pickers.

       NOTE: In the communist Soviet Union, the film was translated into Russian, for the purpose of showing the enslaved masses of the “worker’s paradise” the exploitative nature of the capitalist system.  But before the film was released, the project was pulled when the Soviet technocrats realized that the “exploited” American farmers were rich enough to own trucks, and at liberty to drive them halfway across the nation—without the need for internal passports; whereas Soviet peasants were not allowed to accumulate such wealth, nor were they permitted degree freedom of movement.

       [added 7/23/2022]