Word: harvestings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peaches in Georgia and the South Atlantic States; who, a little later still, picks our strawberries in Maryland, and who, still later, spreads all over the country, winding up perhaps at «a construction camp in Oklahoma, a tomato cannery in Delaware or New Jersey, or the wheat harvest in the Dakotas...
Vastly more solid is the International Harvester Co., which makes practically every tool the farmer may need: beet pullers manure spreaders cane mills motor coaches coiled springs motor truck units corn bundlers movers corn cultivators plows corn pickers potato diggers corn shellers rakes corn shredders reapers cream separators culti-packers seeding machines engines side rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield...
...Bridgewater, Vt., has visited him several times a week, going by sleigh or snow motor over the miles of snow-covered roads to Plymouth, where the snow now lies about four feet deep. Recently the Colonel arranged to lease his sugar lot, because he will be unable to harvest the maple sugar this year since he has lost the use of his legs. The sugar bush, known as "Lime Kiln Lot," because of an old lime kiln that stands on it, is really the property of the President, having been willed to him by his grandfather, Galuchia Coolidge...
...yesterday afternoon at a tea which followed the poetry Matinee in the Repertory Theater. Mr. Davison, one of the most talented of the younger English poets, is at present reading and lecturing in this country. On this particular occasion he had read several selections from his latest book, "The Harvest of Youth...
...That evening, the game won, a man's supper eaten, Bobbie and Audrey were driving slowly along the Fenway. The air was clear and the harvest moon rode overhead. Audrey slid across the seat and laid her cheek against his sleeve...