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...much preoccupied with men on farms as with men in motors, the furrow (plowed by himself) marks a historic event. Last week he issued invitations-to industrialists, farmers, newsmen-to a luncheon at Dearborn Inn to celebrate that historical event. The event in question was his development of a tractor which convinced him that it would revolutionize agriculture...
Last week the new Ford tractor was still a deep Ford secret. The few facts obtainable about it were sufficiently extraordinary...
...history. The wooden plows and peasant strips-the crazy, antiquated setup by which a household cultivated a piece of "near" land close to the hut and a piece of "far" land distant from the village-are finished. Startling are the simple figures of mechanization-collective farmers operate 474,500 tractors, 150,000 combines, 170,000 motor trucks. They include 734,000 tractor drivers, 165,000 combine operators, 124,000 chauffeurs. Last year rural districts bought 225,000 tons of household soap, 82,000,000 Ibs. more than they bought the year before. They bought 73,000 more tons of confectionery...
Robert Marcus Burgunder Jr. was generally regarded by those who knew him as a model young man. He was smart. He was well-behaved. During school vacations he worked in the Wrest Coast harvest fields, drove a tractor on a cinema studio lot, organized magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption...
...Oliver family, whose fortune once totted up to $40,000,000, is still the biggest individual owner of the company, but management has passed to more adept hands. President now is red-cheeked, husky Cal Sivright, who helped Oliver beat Depression by developing the first streamlined tractor. Well liked-except for a habit of asking to see employes' work sheets-he drives points home by banging on the arm of his chair. So characteristic is the gesture that the firm has taken pictures of it for posterity...