Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wings with upturned tips extend from each side of the fuselage. The tail structure is 8 ft. wide and has boxed double rudders, double fins, an upper (elevator) and a lower (stabilizer) tail plane. When the tail planes are deflected they meet and act as a single plane. The tractor propeller is 81 in. over all and operated by a Genet-Major five-cylinder radial motor which develops 100 h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m...
...Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
More recently (TIME, June 17) contracts have been let to other U. S. corporations-for a 100-million-dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine (to be the world's largest); for steel mills, coal mines, apartment houses in Moscow, tractor factories at Stalingrad, etc. etc. After 1933, Industrializer Stalin promises, if there is still necessity, to turn to lesser tasks-such as keeping the population supplied with food and clothing...
Seven Fordson tractors, made in Ireland, last week passed the U. S. Customs duty free. Their free passage resulted from their classification as "agricultural implements." Importance of this decision lay in the fact that Mr. Ford has moved his entire tractor business to Cork, whence it is expected that 100,000 Fordsons a year will eventually be sent to U. S. buyers. The decision also encouraged Ford Internationalism, hastened the time at which the sun will never set on Ford factories...
Albert Kahn, Inc., Detroit architect, for deigning tractor factory (production 40,000 tractors a year) at Stalingrad (TIME...