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Hobbies. A 500-acre farm at Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire, where, says Sir Roger, Lady Makins is "administrative boss" while he is "a sort of hired hand who drives the tractor and pulls weeds...
...political planting time in the farm belt. On the same day last week, both presidential candidates climbed on a tractor-drawn flatbed wagon, rode around Henry Snow's gently rolling land in Dodge County, Minn., and sowed the seed from which they hope to reap the farm vote. The occasion was the National Plowing Contest, and 40,000 Mackinawed and jacketed residents of the farm country came to see the new machines, the tests of plowing skill (contour & level land) and the candidates...
...flashback, the picture tells of Williams' 1921 conviction for the killing of a Prohibition officer during a raid on a North Carolina moonshine still, his experiences in solitary and on a back-breaking chain gang, his development of a lightweight, short-stroke carbine, using only automobile and tractor axles, a fence post, hacksaw and handfile in a prison blacksmith shop.*The happy ending: his pardon...
...Partnership. The fight started when Henry Ford II canceled an oral agreement which his grandfather had made in 1939 to manufacture a tractor for Ferguson according to Ferguson's specifications. Old Henry had been intrigued by the tractor's ingenious hydraulic lift and new method of linking other farm implements to it. Young Henry was appalled at the manufacturing costs. During the seven years of the agreement, the Ford company made 303,501 tractors which Ferguson sold along with farm implements made by others for $313 million, netting Ferguson $4.3 million in 1946 alone. But the Ford company...
...Ferguson, who had based part of his case on the charge that Ford was monopolizing the tractor business, could not prove it. His own sales in 1951 reached $64.5 million (v. their $79.4 million peak while Ford was making the tractor), and his company netted $406,956. The antitrust part of the suit was dismissed by the court...