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...roundup were 70 pieces of heavy machinery, 29 of them completely new. They were the latest evidence that machines for construction work and farms have become so specialized that there is a different one for almost every job. Star of the show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load...
...Lodover, an ingenious little tractor loader designed for work in close quarters, such as in mines. It can swing a load of dirt overhead from front to back...
...Cycle. The dust storms of the south plains had their beginnings when the sod was first broken by homesteaders' plows in the late iSoos; the first U.S. dust bowl developed in Thomas County, Kans. in 1912. The development of the tractor, the rainy years between 1914 and 1931 and high prices for farmers' crops caused a tremendous increase in plowing. Millions of acres of sandy or submarginal land were planted to wheat, corn and cotton. Amid the droughts of the 19305, the coverless, powder-dry earth of the plains lay helpless under the scouring winds. During World...
...vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Bofors antiaircraft guns and Mexican telephones. But of late, his major interest has been building a fabulous tropical resort worthy of the monocled titles and Palm Beach socialites that Swedish-born Wenner-Gren (who started his career at 15? an hour in a New Jersey tractor factory) finds congenial...
Rudolf Serkin, 51, is a tall, loose-jointed man with heavily calloused hands. Driving his tractor at his farm outside Brattleboro, he could pass for a Vermont farmer. But on the concert stage, he ranks as one of the best pianists in the world. Last week Rudolf Serkin was onstage in Carnegie Hall, playing Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and showing a capacity audience the top of his form...