Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four more years Elyniak worked for farmers at Gretna, drew $80 a year plus 80 bu. of wheat and 40 bu. of barley. He bought a team of oxen, two cows, 30 chickens, a wagon and a plow, shipped them west to Edmonton in a freight car, then drove another 50 miles east to Chipman. There he settled with other Ukrainians, raised three sons and four daughters. The homesteading was rough, but not as hard as in the Ukraine...
...help came from K-F. Under a plan which Graham stockholders are expected to approve, K-F will take over Graham's bonded indebtedness, most of its assets and its automaking (i.e., production of the Frazer). Graham will make only Rototillers (combination plow-harrows), and distribute other farm equipment...
...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...
...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...