Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field he had 25 silver-painted combines and 50 tractors, working day & night. Caravans of trucks lumbered to market with his wheat. Five messengers on motorcycles wove through the dust of three big Texas counties bearing messages for his field foremen, his mechanics, his troublespotters. When harvest was over that year and the 22,000 acres of Hickman Price's land lay in stubble, he had raised a half-million bushels of wheat and harvested most...
...through the Panhandle, nipped his young sprouts. Then came fierce storms which pelted his fields with hail, knocking the kernels from their soft sheaves. Cutworms invaded his empire, devouring life-giving roots. Long, hot, cloudless weeks baked his rich soil until surviving stalks of wheat withered and died. When harvest time came most of his silver combines and tractors remained in his sheds. Only 3,000 acres had a crop worth reaping. They yielded but 11 bu. per acre...
Died. Dr. Julian Daniel ("Judy") Taylor. 86, Latin professor of Colby College (Waterville, Me.) for 59 years, officially titled "Grand Old Man of Maine" by Governor William Tudor Gardiner (TIME, Nov. 9, 1931); of a heart attack brought on by helping harvest apples; at Waterville. Me. Inheriting his wife's money, he shrewdly pyramided it. Last year he gave Colby $250,000 (contingent upon raising $2,750,000 more within three years) for the "New Campus for Old Colby...
...communities where the early Catholic influence has survived (New Orleans. Mobile), the community's annual civic celebration takes place just before Lent and is called Mardi Gras. In the central grain-&-pumpkin belt the organized merrymaking is scheduled to occur just after harvest time, when farmers used to have money enough to go to town and buy. Last week the chief cities in two big Western States were the scenes of such affairs...
...which manufacture in Canada, must stress that point in special copy directed at their Canadian consumers through Canadian publications. Result: in three years Canadian distribution of the ten leading U. S. magazines has dropped from 750,000 to 150,000.* From this decline Canada's Big Five reaped harvest...