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...credit or imagination to borrow it, cannot make a U.S.-style living out of farming. What they put into farming is primarily their own labor, and farm labor is low-paid, averaging 84? an hour, less than one-third of factory wages. "When I'm on my tractor," says an Ohio corn-hog farmer with a $300,000 farm, "I'm worth no more than my hired hand...
Together. Her biography made her sound like a perfect specimen of Socialist womanhood: father a tractor driver killed in World War II, mother a factory worker. Cosmonette Valentina herself was a textile worker, night school student and Young Communist functionary until she got interested in parachuting as a hobby (she made 126 jumps) and was picked for cosmonaut training...
Welcome for Wives. Last week circuit-riding Berlitz instructors were teaching Japanese in Chicago to employees of Caterpillar Tractor, Spanish and German in Moline to officials of John Deere, and French in Wilmington to executives of Du Pont. U.S. Steel sends large groups of executives to Berlitz to determine which ones can learn Spanish fastest, later selects some of them for assignment to Venezuela. Corporation wives are almost always included in the various courses; companies have found that wives who are left speechless abroad soon start clamoring for a costly transfer back home...
...some $300,000 on fog horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker, of Phillipsburg, N.J., slowed his Volkswagen-and sailed 100 ft. into some weeds when struck from behind by a tractor-trailer truck. Eleven other trucks and two cars crumpled together. One truck passenger and five truck drivers-one of them 14 vehicles back-were killed. Baker suffered a minor neck injury. >Construction Worker Samuel Brown was eager to get away from northern Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam-and with...
Texas Gala. The mainstay of Deere's business is still the tractor, which accounts for 40% of sales. Three years ago, feeling that the modern farmer needed something better than the two-cylinder "poppin' Johnny" tractors it had been making for 37 years. Deere closed down its plants for six months and retooled for a completely new line of four-and six-cylinder tractors. Forgetting its usual conservatism, the company introduced the new line at a Texas gala that featured a diamond-studded tractor in a NeimanMarcus window adorned by a model in spangled coveralls. The tractors even...