Word: tourneau
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During the late 1920s a former iron molder, garage grease boy, machinist and farm hand named Robert Gilmour Le-Tourneau was making a modest living around Stockton, Calif., leveling farm lands and digging excavations with some machinery he had put together. One night he attended a meeting of the Young People's Mission in Stockton. Full of inspiration, he went home to his drafting board, in no time had turned out a design for a power control unit which would co-ordinate the functions of his digging machine...
...undeterred by the impossibility of producing a corpus delicti, a district attorney sped a State detective to North Brookfield to investigate the 48-year-old death. The detective shortly announced that there was nothing to substantiate Dr. Warriner's claim that he had deliberately done away with Le Tourneau. Snapped Oldster Warriner: "There were four physicians in [North] Brookfield at the time. The others are dead. I am alive. Therefore all others who were acquainted with the case cannot corroborate my story...