Word: snowplow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rising by the dawn's early light, he milked 20 cows, bottled the milk and delivered it before school. The milk route taught him to hustle ("Because the load becomes lighter"), and it also taught him that a touch of extra service can win customers. He built a snowplow, hitched a horse to it and in the winter cleared his customers' driveways. Summers he hawked Ford tractors to farmers, found that the best way to sell was to demonstrate the plows himself; he would plow the farmers' land, and the farmers figured that if young Ed could...
...Time. In Corfu, N.Y., town fathers were trying to replace a policeman, school-crossing guard, water-system operator, snowplow driver, tree trimmer, refuse collector, meter reader and general maintenance man after Leonard J. Gardner quit his $3,225-a-year town job to go to work in a tool and die works...
What with more cherry pie eating and the city's unwillingness to snowplow the streets, human motion in a geographic sense will cease tomorrow and the CRIMSON will not publish until Thursday. For those interested in other dimensions, time and life refused to cooperate and will continue...
Leading the output is a gentleman who drives through the water like a snowplow, Captain Jim Jorgensen. He became the fastest 220 freestyler in the East his sophomore year. Against Yale last March as a junior, the rangy Jorgensen broke his own Crimson record in the 220, set one in the 440 (which he was swimming for the first time), and despite the gruelling length of this event, came back in the immediately following relay with an amazing 53-second leg for the final 100 yards...
Portable Power. Minneapolis' Toro Manufacturing Corp. has introduced a lightweight engine attached to a metal handle that can be hooked up in seconds to a power lawnmower, tiller, edge trimmer or small snowplow. Weighing 39 Ibs., the "Power Handle" contains a 2¾ h.p. engine, is designed to eliminate the need for duplicate power units with each piece of equipment. Price...