Word: motors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About a year ago, Schumacher appeared on public T.V.'s "Nova", demonstrating intermediate technology's answer to the two ton tractor. Consisting of a blade attached to a motor driven winch, 50 yards of cable, and an anchor, the "intermediate plow" works as follows. One farmer walks ahead of the plow and plants the anchor. His partner then starts the plow's lawnmower engine and winches himself, plow and all, right up to the anchor. The first man runs ahead and sets the anchor again...
...recently returned from Germany, where I was a member of our renowned U.S. Army. I can honestly state that if Russia had decided to go with their blitz, we would have been extremely lucky to get out of the motor pool...
Last week, for example, the Government reported that both personal income and industrial production rose more than a percentage point in November. In Seattle, Boeing announced that it would hire up to 4,500 workers because of an upturn in aircraft orders. In Detroit, Ford Motor Co., recovering from a month-long strike, said that it would raise capital spending to $2 billion next year, an increase...
...winter cold. It clearly needs a new charge from the incoming Carter Administration-but how much amperage should be poured in? Last week some dollar numbers emerged from separate meetings between Carter and his transition staff, and the incoming President and chief executives of 15 giant companies, including Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II and DuPont Chairman Irving Shapiro. The President-elect's advisers were somewhat more modest than the businessmen. In effect, they called for $20 billion in tax cuts and spending increases, while the corporate chiefs-or at least their spokesman, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones-opted...
...what he describes as "30 strong inquiries." His first car will be delivered in time for Christmas to Mrs. Marjorie Gay, a Tampa real estate broker who once taught Laumer high school physics. She explains her purchase as "a sentimental journey." That is pretty much how the Ford Motor Co. sees the whole project too. But if Laumer completes his replicas down to use of the old Ford logo, company executives warn, they might sue to stop production...