Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pfister will plow back into equipment. By this weekend, he will have helped plant 4,800 acres with his special inbred strains...
Readers who plow through I Wanted to Write may wish that Tarkington had been around to discuss it with Roberts. He almost certainly would have cut out the ten-page list of people to whom Roberts wrote letters in 1935, together with the scores of pages of now-dull journeyman journalism reprinted here in full. He might even have suggested, as Roberts' publisher should have, that I Wanted to Write should be quietly put away in an old trunk...
...special contributors, among them a policeman who regularly shows up with stacks of tablets and boxes of pencils for students who cannot afford them. Last week, Joe got something he has been after for a long time: a local club offered to buy him a plow so that he and his students could start a garden of their own. Another club had already provided the seeds, and a dairy company the fertilizer...
...proved so successful that Budd dieselized his entire run as fast as he could plow back earnings (now diesels power 80% of the Q's passenger miles, 50% of its freight). The big diesel payoff came in freight. Because of the easier maintenance of diesels, Budd stepped up the Burlington's freight car mileage to 62.7 miles a day by 1947 (v. a national average of 47.6). And the Burlington's net rose last year to an estimated $28 million...
...years later Ted Farley, now Cat's vice president in charge of special projects, went to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He found some Englishmen working a cotton field with a dragline plow operated by a gasoline engine. Like Botts, he had Cat ship him a couple of its prize tractors. But by the time he got to the plantation, the Englishmen were using a German-made diesel engine-and had slashed their costs...