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With the help of their newly acquired cattrack plow, a tractor with enter pillar treads, the department claims it is ready to cope with any blizzard and have the local University grounds dug out in 12 hours. This includes the grounds of the Business and Medical Schools as well as those of the College and Graduate Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Show Men Can Tackle Any Bilizzard | 1/16/1951 | See Source »

...stabiles, so called because they stand still, were sprawling things made of wire, wood and interlocking cast-iron sheets. One of them looked like a snow plow, bore the proud title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Connecticut Yankee | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...girl's triumph makes as wholesome a batch of cornmeal mush as Hollywood has cooked up all year. Though some of the slapstick enlivens a few moments, Never a Dull Moment gives a moviegoer plenty of time to wonder why well-to-do Songwriter Dunne doesn't plow her royalties into the ranch and save everyone a lot of bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Even if farmers think they can solve their labor problem by importing migrant workers from Mexico (a process tangled in red tape) and by mechanization, many of them may still be reluctant to expand cotton acreage. Before they plow up their pastures and go back to the feast & famine dangers of cotton, farmers will want assurance that it will pay in the long run, that quotas won't be clamped on again next year. Warned the Atlanta Constitution: "[Farmers] would do well to think . . . carefully before giving up in favor of the lure of quick cotton profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: Turnabout | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...succeeding months, as Harry Truman popped in & out of the state clapping Em Allison encouragingly on the back, the Democratic Party bucked and groaned like a plow that had hit a patch of Ozark hardscrabble. Most Democrats thought that Thomas C. Hennings Jr., a hearty St. Louis attorney who had earned a substantial reputation as a U.S. Congressman in the '30s, would make a better candidate and many of them were committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Down from the Penthouse | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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