Word: thresh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month U. S. Trotskyites convened in Manhattan to thresh out their theological differences. The Cannonites mustered a 3-to-2 majority, expelled the protestants. Last fortnight the Schachtmanites retaliated by hurrying into print their edition of the New International, the Trotskyite diocesan monthly. Not to be outdone, the Cannonites got out an edition too, retitled the magazine Fourth International. The Cannonites managed to retain the Socialist Workers Party name. At a rousing rally last week the schismatics christened themselves the Workers Party. Both sects, though by this time as far apart as Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...
...International Harvester Co., No. i U. S. farm implement manufacturer, belatedly entered the booming small-implement market with a new, light tractor selling at $515, or $225 cheaper than any previous International model. Fortnight ago it caught up with the sensationally successful market in small combines (which harvest and thresh crops in a single operation as they move through fields) by introducing a 4-ft. model priced at $405-cheapest in the U. S. save for Allis-Chalmers' 40-in., $340 combine which opened up the small-combine field five years...