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...biggest industrial center-where Russia gave birth to its first tractor, first dynamo, first blooming mill; which annually produced nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of finished goods all the way from ships to binoculars, locomotives to electric light filaments...
...could be fired, so that it would probably be two years before anything like full production could be restored. Moreover, Russia has needed almost all of her oil ever since she lost 15,000,000 horses by famine or slaughter (some to encourage, some in rebellion against collectivization), making tractor power essential. So if Hitler wants Russian food he must leave his captives much Russian...
...Barring sabotage, Hitler would get most of Russia's electric, hydroelectric and manufacturing plants - 70% of pig iron, steel and rolled steel capacity; 90% of oil refineries; 63% of tractor factories; 85% of machine and machine-tool factories; 90% of chemical, synthetic rubber and tire plants. But Russia's manufacturing plant, like its agricultural resources, is usually hard-pressed to sustain even the longtime poor living standards of Russia...
...deep groove in both edges. In the groove run the saw's teeth, fastened together on an endless chain that whirls about the blade at a rate of 1,500 feet a minute. The power comes from a converted outboard motor or from a generator mounted on a tractor. It takes two lumberjacks to drive a power saw. They can learn how in a couple of hours...
...Godeffroy, N.Y., Mrs. Emil Myers (who wrote straight to the President) couldn't cultivate her acre of vegetables for lack of a gasoline tractor motor; her husband, who enlarged his dairy "to aid in national defense," couldn't cultivate his feed crops for lack of i) a cultivator, 2) a team of horses, 3) help skilled enough to drive the team...