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...start making his tractors. But they soon disagreed. In 1939, after Ferguson made a new deal with the late Henry Ford, Brown began making his own tractors. They cost more than Ford's or Ferguson's, but Brown said simply: "If we can't be the cheapest, let's be the best." He laid down the rule that the tractors should be "solid, comfortable to sit on, as weatherproof as possible, and as easy to drive...
...Cheapest Place. Hocking became a professional philosopher almost by accident. He started out to be an engineer, had already enrolled at Iowa State College as "the cheapest possible place to get an education." Then, one day in the college library, he began reading the works of William James. "Right then," says he, "I decided to aim for the place where James taught...
Population planners and would-be controllers of human fertility have been stymied by an economic factor: many of the world's most densely packed peoples are so poor that they cannot afford the cheapest contraceptives. Last week the A.M.A. Journal reported that the planners' answer may have been found in ingredients ready to hand in the poorest...
...CRIMSON attacked public initiations of the Hasty Pudding Institute in an editorial entitled "Sophomoric Pornography." "Never, not even in the cheapest of vaudeville houses has the public--the general public in and around Harvard Square and the University--been offended with such common antics, more suitable to Moronia than a supposedly intelligent community," it said, blasting the Club for an exhibition...
...Even the cheapest of the houses are the stuff of Indian dreams. Made of clay brick and concrete slabs they are to cost only $620 apiece, have two rooms, a separate bathroom and lavatory, a porch, a courtyard garden and a separate kitchen with running water. To keep cool in summer and warm in winter, each house will have what Le Corbusier calls "sunbreakers" - deeply recessed windows that will keep out the sun's hot rays when it is directly overhead, but will allow them to enter when the sun moves southward later in the year...