Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm in five is mortgaged for 40%. Two in five are on unimproved roads. One in twelve has a tractor, one in six a radio...
...Widener U38* Th. at 10 Emerson H41* Wed. at 9 Sever 20Seminary in Economics*Mon., Oct. 4, 7.45 P. M. Widener UEDUCATIONA Th. at 9 Lawrence 3C Wed. at 9 Widener CB 21-22* Sept. 29 at 10 Palfrey HouseFIRST MEETING HARVARD ENGINEERING SCHOOLFor Graduate courses consult the In-tractor in charge of the course.30 Th. at 3 (Engineering Science 3) Pierce 30430a Wed. at 2 Pierce 303a50 Th. at 9 (Engineering Science 5a) Pierce 34954 Wed. at 11 (Engineering Science 7c) Pierce 30159 Wed. at 11 Pierce 21672 Th. at 12 Pierce 20290 Th. at 8 A. M. Pierce...
...this vast farming factory fleets of 75 horsepower tractors plow 1,000 or harvest 2,000 acres a day. Mechanical engineers control the machine systems, and report cards on the mileage covered by each tractor are daily handed to managers, who base pay bonuses upon mileage covered. New and improved methods of disking, plowing, seeding, harvesting, threshing have taken this farm far away from story book sentimentality and made it into a highly industrialized system operating with low cost, due to mass production methods...
Three years ago a big, leathery-faced gentleman in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, a blue serge coat and stiff straw hat, climbed carefully up to the driver's seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition...
Advance-Rumely, manufacturers of stationary, portable and tractor engines, separators, corn shellers, plowing, hulling and threshing machines, fuel and water tanks and trucks, tractor plows and accessories, profited during the year $540,577, equivalent, after proper deductions, to $4.32 on the $12,500,000 6% cumulative preferred stock. Only $3 a share was paid on this preferred, leaving in arrears $13.50 a share or a total of $1,687,500. Nothing was paid on the $13,750,000 of common stock. This showing results, despite the good business year, from the foreclosure sale in 1914 of the M. Rumely...