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...farm jobs have defeated mechanization. Peanuts and sugar cane are now mechanically harvested; there is even a machine to pull, top and load sugar beets. Some 60% of the plow market has shifted from two-bottom to three-bottom plows, which plow three furrows at a clip. Before World War II, a two-row cultivator was considered big; now the large size is four-row. One enterprising Iowa farmer has even welded together enough equipment to make himself an eight-row planter, thus spanning twelve acres an hour at 4 m.p.h. International Harvester has a new Electrall tractor with...
...farmer has little interest in such events; with a mechanical corn picker, he thinks nothing of picking and husking 1,500 bu of corn a day. For machine-age farmers a big event at fairs is the tractor rodeo," in which farmers compete at starting tractors attaching implements, plowing the straightest, fastest furrows. Merely hitching up a plow was once a backbreaking task-the heavy implement had to be lifted by several men, worried into position bolted into place. But on 1955's tractors hydraulic lifts make it a simple...
...provided Dr. Peters and all loyalty suspects with the protection of trial court procedures, or else simply fired them offhand with no public hearings and no public disgrace. "Is it your point," asked new Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan, pinpointing the paradox, "that having set its hand at the plow in choosing a hearing method, the Government is then stuck with a due process hearing, and nothing short of a due process hearing?" Replied Arnold: "I wish I had said it that briefly. That is precisely my point...
...usually some discussion of current events; collections of dues; an "educational" period; and a discussion of the affairs of organizations of which some or all of the group were members ... The educational period was sometimes devoted to a book review given by one member. More often we would plow through a few pages in some "classic" we were studying . . . Our meetings were almost exclusively concerned with self-education...
...Franconia, N.H. the week before), Dodge and Miller filed a loud demurrer when Fellow Alumnus Beck failed to make the team. In the end, Beck was chosen as an alternate. Skiing being what it is, the odds are that between now and next winter one of his teammates will plow into a tree. He still has a good chance of racing at the Olympics...