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...TIME, April 22, 1935). Last week, guzzling Coca-Cola by the barrel in a quivering, dust-laden haze, they witnessed the first public demonstration of the Rust picker...
...white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and Government men thronged to a private farm designated by the Delta Experiment Station at Stoneville. For many a month they had heard and talked a great deal about the cotton-picking machine invented by John Daniel Rust and his brother Mack...
Proud and sweating at the machine's controls was Mack Rust, who handled most of the technical problems in developing the picker. Brother John, who first conceived the principle, had gone to Russia. The USSR had bought two of the ten machines which the brothers have so far manufactured, and John Rust went along with the shipment to show Communist agriculturists how to run them...
...Nile soil. Only in Brazil and part of the Argentine are there real possibilities of increasing cotton production to the point where the Cotton Belt could be dropped from the list of world cotton exporters. But those areas lack the South's cheap labor. The threat from the Rust cotton picker (TIME, March 23) or improved versions of that machine, is less to employment in the South than in South America where it would overcome the lack of labor...
...Because of their Socialist objections to throwing thousands of southern workers out of employment Inventors John and Mack Rust have refused to place on the open market their mechanical (1 sugar cane thresher, 2 cotton picker, 3 sugar beet digger, 4 weaver, 5 tobacco cutter...