Word: plowing
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...hottest farming argument since the tractor first challenged the horse was started last summer by Farmer Edward Faulkner's attack on the moldboard plow -Plowman's Folly (TIME, July 26). Last week returns on the great debate had begun to come in. They were very favorable to Faulkner...
...something they could remember." Plugs & Plow Horses. "There are a great many good Catholic chaplains in the Army, men who are zealous, hard working, sacrificing. But I suppose it is no secret that the best priests aren't in uniform. The bishops and the religious superiors are not parting with their race horses. They release the plugs and plow horses - even a few problem children...
...hunger without being overwhelmed with hate and bitterness. . . . I had thought of starting a study circle. . . . As a theme I would have 'Norway In Its Years of Trial'. . . . Thus we would learn that it was precisely in difficult times that our forefathers put new earth to the plow...
...farm enough to keep his growing family alive. He planted a herring with his crops because the Indians did-and it seemed to help them grow. But it never occurred to him that his oxen's manure would make better fertilizer. He refused to use a metal plow because he thought iron poisoned the soil...
...most radical suggestions yet made to solve the postwar unemployment problem came last week from Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern Air Lines president. Rickenbacker recommended that U.S. industry declare a three-year moratorium on dividends and earnings, plow all the money back into expansion to create new jobs...