Word: plowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight years ago Mr. Lowden had his job as able, wartime Governor of Illinois to finish, to seem wholly preoccupied with. Now, as a humble Cincinnatus, he bides on his Sinnissippi Farm at Oregon, Ill., refusing to be called from the plow until the psychopolitical moment. With much honk and ceremony, a large motorcade of his admirers drew up at Sinnissippi last month. Mr. Lowden had known in advance that they were coming, but when he strode out on the porch in riding boots, his greeting to them was an indefinite gesture. Instead of a destination, he gave them...
...Reader Watterson send photographs not of the plow alone but of Inventor Roe & plow, of Inventor Roe plowing...
...Plow...
...first heard about the new electric plow invented by Mr. Roe of Pittsburgh through your magazine [TIME, Aug. 1]. It interested me so much that I was telling a farmer friend about it yesterday. As it happened, my friend had just been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision...
There are to be demonstrations of the electric plow at the Genesee County Fair this month. I intend going to see for myself and will send you photos of the plow idle and in action...