Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sprinkling of Kublai.** But to U. S. architects and automotivemen, Albert is the most famed member of the Kahn family. Soviet Rus sia, also conscious of Albert Kahn, commissioned him last week to construct vast factories at Stalingrad, at the Volga River's mouth. A tractor plant, an automobile factory and a cotton mill will be the first units in the proposed industrial group...
Giuseppe M. Bellanca has a secret. In his factory at New Castle, Del., is a big new plane about which only the following details were rumored last week: It has two Pratt & Whitney Wasp motors mounted tandem in the nose, one driving an ordinary tractor propeller, the other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot...
...place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them by sledge to the nearest railway station, Pechweke Peke...
...Heavy machines in large cases constituted most of the cargo of the Vestris. Included were: 650 cases automobiles, 600 shipped by General Motors Co. to Montevideo: 240 cases automobile accessories; 68 cases typewriters: 86 cases cash registers: 31 cases truck chasses: 58 cases tractor parts; 66 tractors: and in varying amounts, railroad materials, furnaces, gas engines, steel office furniture, motorcycles, divers hardware. There was considerable mail, including diplomatic correspondence with U. S. consular agents...
Henry Ford was in England, dining with Lloyd George and Sir Harry E. Brittain,-* giving away a Ford car here, a Fordson tractor there, visiting farms and factories, stating that he regarded Great Britain as the centre of the Old World. Mrs. Ford was with...