Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford, 87, younger brother of the original Henry; of a heart attack; in Detroit. William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...
...Danish raspberry pie, and the farmer's daughter learned that if she had light brown hair she should use clear red or red-orange lipstick. For the small fry, the Farm Journal ran plans of a hobbyhorse with a body fashioned from the oil filter of a tractor...
...cultivate its sources. Nine regional editors spend most of their time prowling about farms, Government stations and university "Ag" departments. On a recent trip, Dean Wolf, one of the magazine's three Midwestern editors, stumbled across three major items for his futures list in one day: a tractor rig that on one trip plowed, spread fertilizer, pulled a harrow and spread insecticide; an experiment that took piglets from their mothers by surgery and raised them in disease-free surroundings; and an operating "pig factory" which successfully used new techniques (TIME, March 9) to raise pigs in one building from...
Left-Wing Help. Castro's views clearly derive from the typical Latin American university atmosphere, where bull sessions, filled with hazy Marxism, are the out-of-class fodder of the students. His economics nevertheless remains capitalist: each farmer owning his own land, his own tractor. But around Castro, who tolerantly likens them to Masons or Catholics, sprouts a band of Reds as luxurious as his beard...
Caterpillar Tractor...