Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second, some eight to nine billion lei worth of cattle, food and fuel have been requisitioned. Included in this is a large amount of agricultural machinery and grain. More worrisome is the fact that seed grain has also been taken. The outlook for next year's harvest is gloomy...
...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...
...best plywood logs are from virgin-growth trees, but chunks need be no longer than 8½feet. As a result farmers are logging lo-foot stumps left by pioneer woods crews near Grays Harbor, and selling them for prices ranging from $20 to $40. And the rush to harvest long-dead timber is eliminating many an ancient and dangerous fire hazard...
Fresh from the factory, 500-wagon-red, self-propelled combines drove north with the wheat harvest last week. The roving harvest brigade was big news on the farm front. Backer of the idea was Joseph M. Tucker, shrewd U.S. vice president of Canada's largest farm-machinery manufacturers, Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. Tucker sold the War Food Administration and the Canadian Government on the idea of allocating to Massey-Harris enough engines and steel to build 500 of the self-propelled combines (see cut). The one condition: that Massey-Harris would sell the machines to operators who would agree...
With the War Food Administration calling on U.S. farmers to plant 13.8 million additional acres of wheat this season, and the U.S. farmers testily questioning the sense of planting more acreage unless they could get machinery to harvest it, Tucker's idea won quick approval...