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...Empire Plow Co. Cleveland...
...statement contained on page 95 in the issue of TIME of Dec. 2, in which you characterize the Empire Plow Co. as "moribund," was evidently made by you in reckless disregard of the truth. Because of the wide circulation of your magazine it will have a seriously injurious and damaging effect upon the business of the Empire Plow Co., which is one of the oldest and best established agricultural implement concerns in America, with a worldwide distribution of its products. . . . The business of the Empire Plow Co. is over 100 years old ... has [long] enjoyed the highest confidence and reputation...
...taciturn Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson made a deal with a shy, talkative inventor named Henry Ford. They both thought that a Ferguson-designed tractor, which had a hydraulic mechanism to raise and lower a plow automatically, would revolutionize agriculture. It didn't-exactly. But in the process the Ford Motor Co. made 250,000 Ferguson tractors, helped build Harry Ferguson Inc. into one of the biggest U.S. agricultural equipment companies...
...month business. Tractors supply half this income, but towering (6 ft. 4 in.), fast-moving Ferguson president, Roger Martin Kyes (rhymes with skies), 40, does not seem worried. Harvardman Kyes introduced himself to farm equipment in 1932 at Cleveland's moribund Empire Plow Co., joined Ferguson's in 1940. He has run the company so smartly that Harry Ferguson now spends most of his time in England, overseeing plants there. President Kyes feels that "we could make money next year if we didn't sell a single tractor." But the company has already arranged, said...
Most of the 17 short stories in this collection have already been printed in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. They are the product of an able craftsman, content to plow a narrow field, and not very deeply...