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...special contributors, among them a policeman who regularly shows up with stacks of tablets and boxes of pencils for students who cannot afford them. Last week, Joe got something he has been after for a long time: a local club offered to buy him a plow so that he and his students could start a garden of their own. Another club had already provided the seeds, and a dairy company the fertilizer...
...proved so successful that Budd dieselized his entire run as fast as he could plow back earnings (now diesels power 80% of the Q's passenger miles, 50% of its freight). The big diesel payoff came in freight. Because of the easier maintenance of diesels, Budd stepped up the Burlington's freight car mileage to 62.7 miles a day by 1947 (v. a national average of 47.6). And the Burlington's net rose last year to an estimated $28 million...
...years later Ted Farley, now Cat's vice president in charge of special projects, went to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He found some Englishmen working a cotton field with a dragline plow operated by a gasoline engine. Like Botts, he had Cat ship him a couple of its prize tractors. But by the time he got to the plantation, the Englishmen were using a German-made diesel engine-and had slashed their costs...
...Neighbor's Plow. But the majority of Father Molnar's flock object to his dual faith. They are strongly in favor of Mindszenty. Father Molnar barely managed to prevent a violent clash between Mikofalva's Communists and the pro-Mindszen-ty villagers. "A spark could have set off the flame," he said. He did not dare preach against Mindszenty. Privately, however, he referred to the cardinal as an anti-democrat. To Father Molnar it seemed that the cardinal simply had not been reasonable. "He knew he would be arrested sooner or later. He could have escaped...
...said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...