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...Deere & Co., whose distinctive green and yellow colors have for years identified its tractors, farm machinery and, lately, its light industrial equipment. After all, almost every inch of Illinois was plowed, furrowed, dug or smoothed at one time or another by some piece of Deere machinery. Since Blacksmith John Deere perfected the first steel plow in 1837-the plow that broke the plains-Deere has become the leading seller of farm equipment...
...Brazil nuts went ahead anyway. U.S. engineers converted an old foundry to make Willys' castings, began building the sprawling, efficient plant at Sao Bernardo. The Brazilians set about lining up parts suppliers. A manufacturer of hypodermic needles converted his production to gas and oil lines, and a blacksmith bid to supply wheels. Recalls Willys Treasurer Paulo Quartim Barbosa: "We gave him an order for 500 wheels. They weren't quite square-but almost. Our technicians found they had eight protruding points. But we gave him another chance, and when he sent them back to us again two months...
...silent days-and wife of Veteran Producer Hal Wallis-who starred in Keystone comedies as the farmer's tomboy daughter (her pigtails were insured for $10,000 by Mack Sennett). later mugged her hilarious way through some 300 Hollywood films in roles from Indian squaw to lady blacksmith without ever losing her gift of grimace; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug full of booze, rock candy, rusty nails, and rusty hinges...
...Yankee who came down with "lung fever," headed West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping 6-ft. 220-pounder, played center on the football...