Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rust's Backing. Meanwhile John Rust, now working independently of his brother Mack, unveiled his new two-row picker. Long handicapped by lack of capital, John Rust has a substantial new backer, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., which built two of his new machines for the Mississippi field tests. Like the Rusts, machinery manufacturers are convinced that cotton mechanization is just over the horizon. Last week John Rust, more impressed than he was in 1935 with the social enormity of his invention, said he was still determined to establish a foundation out of his earnings to soften the blow...
...Straight Row. On that November day in 1884 when Grover Cleveland reversed 2-4 years of Republican rule to win the Presidency for the Democrats, John Truman, owner of a mule barn in Lamar, Mo., raised a flag over his white frame house and vowed it would stay there as long as Democracy remained in power. Six months earlier, John Truman had tacked a mule shoe above his front door to celebrate the birth of his first son, Harry...
...Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank and rose to bookkeeper at $115 a month. Suddenly he returned to his father's farm, and stayed there for ten years. His mother, now 91, says he could plow the straightest row of corn she ever...
Garner's hands were stained black. He leaned forward slightly, favoring his left ear, talking fast. "Got my hands like this hulling pecans yesterday. Today I've been in the cornfield since early morning-I took the 'down row'-had to bend down, following the wagon. I wish we had time to strike a blow for Liberty, Harry...
Eleven months later, after a row over a one-day pass which the ensign charged was unauthorized, Compton was sent back to the U.S. with his battalion, for leave and reassignment. But on his next detail at Camp Endicott, R.I., he found himself once more bossed by the same young officer, by now a lieutenant, junior grade. The lieutenant promptly began to ride him systematically, said Compton, gave him low marks in attitude and discipline, sent him on 15-mile hikes, imposed unnecessary discipline. When the next quarterly ratings were issued, Compton was found to be "unfit." He was discharged...