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This lament in Varvara Karbouvskaya's Bondage indicates how tired Soviet writers must be of the girl-meets-boy, girl-loves-tractor school of fiction. The 18 stories collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly...
Chairman James S. Duncan resigned because of "ill health," and Colonel W. Eric Phillips, backed by 30% of the voting stock, became chairman and chief executive officer. Phillips, who had brought Thornbrough to Toronto from the Ferguson tractor division a year before, promoted him to president with authority to overhaul the company...
Massey-Ferguson is now working to acquire the tractor plant of England's Standard Motor Co. Ltd., and the diesel engine facilities of England's F. Perkins Ltd. The firm has expanded its operations in France, doubling its stockholdings in Standard-Hotchkiss, a French tractor maker, to 50%. But energetic Al Thornbrough still looks to the U.S. for the even bigger market that Massey-Ferguson must have before it can shuck all its troubles. He has purchased Mid-Western Industries of Wichita, Kans., a leader in the light industrial-equipment field, doubled the size of the Detroit tractor...
...from a weekly radio program in which he answered questions sent in by U.S. listeners. (Sample: Are there chiropractors in the U.S.S.R.? Answer: No, but chiropractic techniques are used.) Like a less history-conscious Gunther. Author Levine ranges over the surface of Soviet life, from shops to prisons, from tractor stations to "stereokino." The book is larded with anecdotes and jokes (see box), which illustrate the Soviet mood...
...reason for Black's confidence in rising sales was delivered to the trucking industry this month. It was a fiber-glass cab, first in the industry, which is designed to cut 1,000 Ibs. to 1,500 Ibs. from the total weight of a tractor-trailer combination, permitting truckers to raise their payload correspondingly...