Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mormonism sprang from the mind of Joseph Smith, who was born in Vermont in 1805, grew up on a Manchester, N.Y. farm, and hated to plow. He was handsome, tall, wavy-haired, had long eyelashes and a faint but unmistakable resemblance to Comic Danny Kaye. He had a fecund imagination and an instinctive sense of drama and command. At 18 he professed to be able to look into a "peep stone" and find hidden gold. He found none...
Young Henry Ford gave a big business lunch last week. The lunch was alfresco, at his onetime summer home at Deer Lake Farms, near Detroit. Under tents, Young Henry and 300 guests quaffed beer and cocktails, munched cold meats and salad, buffet-style, then watched a new Ford tractor plow the hard clay of the field outside. Said Young Henry, introducing his latest product: "Since the days of my grandfather ... we have always had one foot in the soil, and one foot in industry. We will continue that policy...
...saved in salaries Bermúdez hopes to plow back into badly needed new equipment. Most important of all, he expects his move to galvanize Pemex's notoriously lethargic working force. "We have more oil than Venezuela, and it is our job to get it up. ... When I get through," he says, "every man in Pemex is going to be on his toes, anxious to win a good record and improve the organization...
Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...
Even in the great winter-wheat fields of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, where the biggest crop of all time is in prospect, the growth was ten days behind schedule; farmers had been forced to replant early corn and cotton. Many had not been able to plow for row crops...