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...prospectors were racing into the Lynn Lake area by bush plane. Flyers who circled Lynn Lake saw so many snowshoe tracks on the ground they looked like chicken runs. Around the lake a busy settlement had sprung up. Log cabins and prefabricated houses had been hauled north on sleighs. Tractor trains clanked in from Sherridon carrying hundreds of tons of supplies at a time. (On the return trip they carried back ore for extraction at a pilot plant set up in Sherridon.) There was talk of laying a spur railroad line from Sherridon north to Lynn Lake...
From the beginning to the end, Harry Truman had not uttered a public word. But his victory had not been easy. His strategy had been simple-he had set the power of the Government against John Lewis, like a tractor against a redwood tree, and had waited for something to give...
...Neither Ford nor Ferguson gave a reason for the split. Detroit guessed that money-losing Ford had decided it was not getting enough out of the deal. Ford is setting up a new company to be headed by General Motors Vice President Frank R. Pierce to make its own tractor and a complete line of farm implements...
Thus Ferguson, although it owns no plants, has grown to a $10,000,000-a-month business. Tractors supply half this income, but towering (6 ft. 4 in.), fast-moving Ferguson president, Roger Martin Kyes (rhymes with skies), 40, does not seem worried. Harvardman Kyes introduced himself to farm equipment in 1932 at Cleveland's moribund Empire Plow Co., joined Ferguson's in 1940. He has run the company so smartly that Harry Ferguson now spends most of his time in England, overseeing plants there. President Kyes feels that "we could make money next year if we didn...
...worried about competition from the new Ford tractor, which will also have a hydraulic control mechanism. Said Kyes with a hard grin: "I recall that we have a number of patents." Old Henry Ford was never frightened by the threat of patent suits. Whether young Henry is remains to be seen...