Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crusty, cold-bath-and-calisthenics-loving James Oliver perfected the "Oliver Chilled Plow" in 1868. Although the first metal plow had been made in 1837, Oliver's chilled cast-iron model was such an improvement that he has been regarded ever since as the father of the modern plow. Last week Oliver Farm Equipment Co. of South Bend, Ind. proudly announced the "Raydex" base and point, "greatest advance in plow-making" since 1868-the first entirely machine-made plow base...
...Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River," two films produced by the Farm Settlement Administration, will be shown in the Eliot House Junior Common Room, on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock under the sponsorship of the American Civilization Counsellors of the University...
...turned up surprisingly few people who have got anywhere in big-time entertainment. Of the 5,000 who have signed the Major's "amateur's oath"-mouth organists, bell ringers, jug players, musical sawyers, garden-hose players, yodelers, tap dancers-most went back home to tend store, plow fields, marry, sell iceboxes with the memory of one shining moment in show business...
...dull, and its message is hopelessly sentimental and confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
...handed out its first big farm subsidy, $162,000,000 in benefit payments: to plow under 10,500,000 acres of cotton, kill 222,149 brood sows, 6,188,717 little pigs. Farm income rose...