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Republicans, stirring election-year potions of their own, rammed through a whopping $170,000 appropriation for a new investigating subcommittee empowered to investigate anything and anybody. The committee chairmanship went to Michigan's Homer Ferguson. The first order of business: the 1946 Kansas City primary in which Harry Truman had purged Congressman Roger C. Slaughter...
...Ferguson Lands. Harry Ferguson, Inc., which lost its old tractor-making partner, the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, July 21), imported the first 200 tractors from its new supplier, Standard Motor Co. Ltd., of Coventry, England. Standard, which is shipping 100 tractors a day, hopes they will help U.S. sales of its new 72-h.p. automobile (price: "less than $2,000"). The tractors and cars will have many interchangeable parts...
Senator Thomas admitted that he had ordered his broker to close out his holdings. But he was not going to let Senator Homer Ferguson's subcommittee haul him up for a public grilling. He would stand on his congressional immunity. "I'm not going to let them make a Roman holiday out of me," he said...
Last Word. Senator Ferguson asked Stassen if he wanted to reply. Stassen did. Leaping to his feet, he cried: "In his protestations of innocence, Pauley has confessed his guilt...
Tractor Deal. Harry Ferguson, Inc. found a new manufacturer for the tractors which Henry Ford II had stopped building for Inventor Ferguson (TIME, July 21). It was Sir John Black's Standard Motor plant at Coventry, England. Standard, already building 250 tractors a day for Ferguson's English company, will build another 250 a day for Harry Ferguson, Inc. to sell in the U.S. They will be powered with Continental motors imported from the U.S. (Ferguson found that would be cheaper than assembling the motor and British frames...