Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has compelled U.S. farmers to look for manpower substitutes, is mothering some amazing new farm machines. So says FORTUNE for September in a survey of new farm machinery that may revolutionize U.S. postwar agriculture. Some of FORTUNE'S findings: > An enclosed tractor cab with self-starter, heater, cigar lighter, windshield wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising...
With a jam session last Sunday by several members of the late Gold Coast Band as a starter, the V-12 men can expect some sort of entertainment almost every weekend, with House dances coming in the future...
...Slow Starter. The Thunderbolt was a long time getting there. Production bogged in sloughs of tail flutters, engine imperfections, radio quirks, troubles with the turbosupercharger that, with 62 ft. of aluminum air ducts, crams the belly of the ship. The plane now creeping into R.A.F.-Eighth Air Force communiques is the fourth model. It looks something like a huge,* streamlined milk bottle. It is half as heavy as a loaded 21-passenger transport, is armed with eight .50-calibre machine guns, is heavily armor-plated, is powered with a 2,000-h.p. Ford-built Pratt & Whitney engine...
After the visitors, whose ranks were sprinkled with professional talent, jumped on starter Brendon Reilly for three runs in the first frame, the Crimson nipned away at the Coast Guard lead run by run, and Bob Slattery's two-run home run to left in the fifth put the Stahlmen ahead 5 to 4. But Lou Belanger replied in the sixth with a circuit clout to left center to equalize matters again. Harvard failed to score in the sixth...
...opening-nighters who got into Madison Square Garden free by buying $3,000,000 worth of War Bonds saw, for a starter, a fine turn-of-the-century circus parade. While the band blared A Bicycle Built for Two and After the Ball, boys & girls rode their tandems and dandies strutted. Then came wild beasts in gilded cages, plumed horses, heavy-footed elephants, white-faced clowns, a singing steam calliope...