Word: beets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to drive a farmer to drink. North of the Rio Grande, bumper cotton and sugar-beet crops were ready for harvest, and U.S. farmers were faced with the nightmare of losing it all for want of extra farm hands. Meanwhile, jammed into the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, just below the river, nearly 8,000 Mexican workers waited to be registered as seasonal braceros and to go on north to the harvest. But nothing was being done to send them north; they were stranded...
Working Arrangement. In Los Angeles, a judge granted Mrs. Elaine Dunham a divorce on condition that she continue to feed her farmer-husband during the beet season...
...thinking it was foolish to send his cattle to Chicago to be butchered, established Denver's first packing plant (the Western Packing Co.). He got to looking at the vast, empty Colorado prairies. After a visit to Germany, he came back with a sack of beet-sugar seed. The beets flourished on the prairies, and he founded the Great Western Sugar Co. He started building beet-processing plants, got to wondering about the German-made cement. He found that Colorado had the right clays, started the Colorado Portland Cement Co. (now the Ideal Cement...
...machine was invented by Har old F. Silver of Denver, a designer for the sugar-beet industry. He tackled the problem shortly before the war at the request of a Colorado coal company, perfected his mining machine in 1947, then sold the patents to Pittsburgh's Joy Manufacturing Co. Joy, leading mine-machinery maker in the U.S., added the results of its own research to Silver's design, and began tests in the lignite fields of Colorado last year. But the tests at the Pittsburgh Consolidation mine in Daisytown, Pa. were the first in a regular coal mine...
...past, Harvester would do the farmer's reaping, picking and binding, with corn-and cotton-pickers, beet harvesters, self-propelled combines. But like the U.S. farmer, Harvester had its eye firmly fixed on the all-purpose tractor. This year the company turned out 108,000 tractors, more than any other piece of heavy equipment. Next year it intends to cover the market, from the giant 18-ton, 170-h.p. diesel crawler to the midget Farmall Cub, selling for $545 f.o.b. (about $1,000 with attachments). The Cub was designed to mechanize some of the 3,300,000 U.S. farms...