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Mamazan has a tractor. Grain yields have doubled, cucumber yields multiplied by six. DDT saved the latest melon crop. A young American, Theodore Noe, is the organizer of Mamazan's progress. He represents the Near East Foundation, a private organization backed by voluntary contributions. The N.E.F. put up $20,000 to help Mamazan. Impressed by what the $20,000 bought, Iran's government put a whopping $400,000 into the N.E.F.'s work A ten-year-old who had gone to Noe's school said proudly: "I can teach my father how to transplant lettuce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Land of Insecurity | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

With the help of their newly acquired cattrack plow, a tractor with enter pillar treads, the department claims it is ready to cope with any blizzard and have the local University grounds dug out in 12 hours. This includes the grounds of the Business and Medical Schools as well as those of the College and Graduate Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Show Men Can Tackle Any Bilizzard | 1/16/1951 | See Source »

Husky young T. C. Gaines, an Arizona farmer, had promised to lend his tractor to a neighbor. One day last May, as good as his word, he delivered the tractor and drove his truck over to the neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Farmer & the Drug | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Senay, who can cut and weave with the best of them when he is right physically, has been held back by injuries. Just before the start of the 1949 season, a tractor turned over on him, fracturing his leg, and he saw only limited service late in the season. He started this year off well, but was slowed down by an ankle sprain early last month. The other halfback, sophomore Jerry Conway, is small but fast and elusive. He is the back in motion in the split...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Yale's Hickman Fields a Well-Balanced Eleven | 11/24/1950 | See Source »

...people's democratic army." Instead of "vain talk of love," he continued, "you must tell your girls about the experience of being built into new human beings for service in a new and stronger people's army. Tell them to write you about their experiences as tractor drivers, factory hands or members of the collective farms. If your girl friend will prove her truthfulness and determination on the economic battlefront and you on the battlefield, there will grow from this bond the new kind of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Male Call | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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