Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...documentary films, "The Plow That Broke the Plains," and "The River," will be shown tonight at 7:30 in the Lowell House Common Room. It will be open to members of the House and of the American Civilization Groups in the other Houses...
...Lloyd George's contention is that the Government farm subsidy, passed last June, awarding ?2 per acre to farmers who would plow up their old pastureland, is not stimulus enough. He railed: "There are 2,500,000 acres less tillage in this country than in 1914. ... You must not be like the German delegates [in 1919] and come to the peace table with empty barns...
...always moving, the branches opening and closing holes through which appear glimpses of the surrounding hills, or of the little red and white village of Charlottesville a mile away. Down below in the valleys the woods have been cleared, the red earth turned and turned again with the plow, and planted with seed, so that the valley floor is flecked with patches of fertile green and yellow. All around are the gentle foothills of the Blue Ridge, criss-crossed with sparkling streams, and molded down into a leisurely alternation of heights and lowlands. It was here that Thomas Jefferson brought...
...decades ago Moline Plow Co. had two notable officers. One of them (president) was Farm Economist George Nelson Peek, who in early New Deal days became AAAdministrator, the other was Hugh Samuel Johnson (vice president), who became New Deal's NRAdministrator. Since 1929 Moline Plow Co. has been part of Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co. -which has a notable president...