Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead on such problems. Despite the success of the Sabre in Korea, Kindelberger does not underestimate the mechanical ability of the Russians. Says he: "Our conception of the Russian is crazy. We've thought of him as a peasant with a cow, and his wife out pulling a plow-stopping only now and then to scratch. But Russia is building up and improving her industries all the time...
...bureaucracy under which Russian oilmen are forced to work is so top-heavy, writes Smirnov, that Russians guardedly refer to it as "one with a plow and seven with spoons." Bringing in a dry hole is a criminal offense punishable by banishment to Siberia. On geological expeditions, food is always so short that to feed a field party of 25 a manager is forced to "add another 25 'dead souls' to his roster, thus getting food for 50 men, which is barely enough to feed his crew...
...Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector: a heroic Red peace partisan, with a peace dove shield. The other panel is Picasso's personal dream of peace, where anything is possible. Picasso's trees bear golden fruit, even small children can work a plow, and a benevolent sun wears a festive dress. There are birds in fish bowls suspended in the sky, fish in canary cages on the ground...
After reorganizing the company from top to bottom, Ford and Breech began to plow back profits and cash on hand into modernization and expansion...
Farmer Folke Trana, of Valo, Sweden, was plowing a boggy field when his plow dug out of the gooey dirt a crude wooden dragon's head about a foot long. Farmer Trana was agreeably surprised, but when he reported his find to the State Historical Museum, its experts were delighted. The carved head, they decided, might be part of a "High Seat" of the Viking...