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...position is complicated by the similarity between this petrol in its yellow stage and the red petrol which becomes yellow when mixed with the new grey petrol which must be mixed with brown petrol for pleasure trips of more than one-seventh of a mile in a farm tractor...
...honor: 1) the town of Mariupol, where he was born; 2) the Tagansky District of Moscow; 3) the Primorsky District of Leningrad; 4) Rozhdestvenka Street in Moscow; 5) the Izhora Shipbuilding Works; 6) Moscow's Exemplar Printing Works; 7) the Krasnoye-Sormovo Metal Works; 8) the Vladimir Tractor Works; 9) the Leningrad State University; 10) the Naval Political Academy in Leningrad; 11) the Pioneers' Palace in Leningrad; 12) the Krasnoselskaya Division of the 45th Guards...
...great day for Inventor Harry Ferguson. Less than 15 months after Henry Ford II had stopped producing Ferguson tractors, Irish-born Harry Ferguson stepped into his first tractor to drive it out of his new Detroit plant. He had something to crow about...
Built in a record-breaking 116 days, the plant is airy and bright, and boasts many a trick to cut production costs. Example: tractors are lifted from one steel platform to another-so workers can walk around the tractor and do several assembly jobs-instead of being pulled along a continuous assembly line. Ferguson expects to turn out 100 tractors a day within two months, 500 when his production line hits its stride. List price: $1,470, more than $200 higher than Ford tractors...
...cotton crop in a decade. Countless tons of grapes were on their way to wineries in California. The far West's army of "fruit tramps" picked apples in Washington's Wenatchee and Yakima Valleys. In Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, the greatest corn crop in history awaited picking. Tractor-drawn drills were seeding wheat in the fields of Kansas and Nebraska. Sweating cowhands and their sweating mounts were cutting herds in the Southwest...