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Roads, Restrictions & Rates. Alaskans had scores of grievances. They wanted roads-one overall-clad woman dramatized the request by tramping in to see the Secretary, announcing she had left her tractor mired to the carburetor two miles outside of town. Gold operators complained that the Army hired their help away. Hundreds asked for release of Government lands, an end to restrictions which discourage homesteading. Alaska was in terrible need of hospitals, particularly tuberculosis hospitals. And there was always the subject of high freight rates...
...Party's leading personnel" in the Ukraine, the Soviet republic with the strongest separatist tendencies, and the area that suffered most from the war. Gone were "about half" of the Ukraine's executives, including 64% of the heads of regional Soviets and 67% of the directors of tractor stations. To replace their "bourgeois-nationalistic conceptions," Khruschev said that special party schools would be set up to give the new leaders (29 years after the founding of the Soviet Union) proper "ideological-political training...
...promised to turn their country "into one of the blooming corners of the Great Soviet Union." They added that since Russia "provided us with the opportunity to bypass the capitalistic path," Tannu Tuva has revised its alphabet (now modeled on the Russian), has organized state and collective farms, tractor stations, wagon works, shoe factories, and developed gold, coal and salt mines...
...clock everything was ready to roll. Fay Everett got into the saddle of the 17-year-old tractor that pulls the bigger combine. Frank Anderson cranked the combine's engine and the morning's vast silence was filled with chugging and the swish of churning slats. Frank stood atop the combine, guiding the pitch and height of its 16-foot reel as it chewed at the stalks. Now there were other sounds: the roar of Jack Anderson's tractor as he swung the smaller combine in behind his father's, and the low, steady purr...
...windswept stubble field on the outskirts of Regina, nine tractors were lined up, Indian file. Around one tractor and the "one-way cultivator" hitched to it, a crowd of 300 farmers, implement makers and Regina businessmen kept their eyes on the professor, a tall, husky man, clad in much-washed cotton trousers and shirt, a sweat-stained felt...