Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year era of the great steel plow, central instrument of American abundance and strength, is ending in an astonishing revolution now sweeping through Maryland and on to the Illinois bottomlands and the high hills of Oregon where corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton are grown. The upheaval in the long, quiet reaches of U.S. farmland has gone largely unnoticed in the din of presidential politics, the cries of rage from the torn inner cities, and the turmoil abroad. But it may mean as much to this country as all the other changes taking place around the world -- or even more...
When something new like this is born, something else must die. The self- scouring polished-steel moldboard plow is not going to expire totally. But history's chapter of giants in the earth with their plows is closing. It has been a glorious story, mistakes...
John Deere hammered out the first simple steel plow in his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Ill., in 1837. He used a discarded saw blade. The genius was in the metal, sturdy and sharp enough to cut the strong, matted roots of the high-stemmed prairie grass and turn up the rich earth below for planting. The slick surface of the moldboard (the portion of the plow above the share, the cutting edge) kept the plow from gumming up, the curse of wooden moldboards. By 1839 Deere was making 10 plows a year, then 40, and by 1850 production...
...Takashima professorship, supported by a $3million grant from the Kyoei Steel Company ofJapan and named for the president of the company,will support a scholar in the humanities...
...bell tower, but engineers finally decided on a more mundane approach. About 800 tons of lead ingots are to be installed at the base to counter the tower's precarious inclinations. To give it some support in the meantime, workers last week began girdling the structure with 18 steel bands...