Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insistence on first things first. Washington complained that they wanted to learn about cube roots before learning the multiplication tables. They talked glibly of having mastered "banking and discount," but most of them still ate with their fingers. He taught them how to wash, to brush their teeth, to plow and plant ("trained farmers are as much needed as trained teachers"), how to make bricks and shoe horses. Then he taught them how to read and write, and something of history and literature. It was his idea to turn out, not scholars or statesmen, but skilled technicians and prosperous farmers...
...engineer who had reduced the flutter of airplane surfaces found a way to do the same for plow blades. A geologist worked out a method of handling ammonium nitrate crystals which helped the Spencer Chemical Co. of Pittsburg, Kans. switch from wartime explosives to peacetime fertilizers. Midwest developed a bacteriological germicide, a new kind of steak sauce, a mud hardener for barnyards, and a revolutionary way to mill wheat by exploding grains with compressed...
...cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry Wallace for Secretary of Agriculture, backed his crop-control program ("Plow the little pigs under"), persistently pushed parity payments onward & upward...
...high as $5,000), plugging his own records. He is a regular on NBC's Grand Ole Opry, now has his own five-day-a-week transcription programs. In Manhattan a reporter asked him whether he really had been a plowboy. Said he: "Boy, I sure did plow. That's why I wanted to learn to play that guitar, so I wouldn't have to keep plowin' all my life...
...Treasury pressure on corporations to distribute 70% of their profits as dividends, thus encouraging management "to plow back earnings and increase output...