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...previous histrionic efforts Joe has been successively, a high jumper, five day bike rider, clown, prize fighter, acrobat, and tractor operator. Now, assisted by Carol Hughes, he overcomes his fear of horses the bold way. In short the usual Brown formula is followed. A timid soul, he pretends to great prowess on the ponies, and what you imagine would happen does, and in a big way. This is among Joe Brown's funnier pictures, and the supporting cast, headed by the redoubtable Skeets Gallagher and the aforesaid Miss Hughes, who is attractive, in a hard, metallic way, bet still...
Caterpillar Tractor, largest U. S. maker of Diesel-type power units, reported third-quarter profits of $2,551,379, compared to $1,403,491 in the same three months last year. Profits for the nine months were $7,032,470 as against $4,311,643 in the same period...
...heavy stake in a service which provides shippers with big steel boxes that can be loaded on flat cars. B. & O. could go that one better by running a Keeshin trailer on flat cars, running it off at its destination to be attached to a Keeshin truck tractor...
Pulled by a snorting Deere tractor, the machine moved back & forth at 3 m.p.h. along the 300-yd. rows of plants. Smooth wet spindles combed into the plants, caught the white tufts from open bolls. From the spindles the cotton was mechanically stripped and blown into a collecting bag. Hour after hot hour the spindle-belts droned on like a swarm of bees. Bag after bellying bag poured out its load in a white cascade. Spectators crowded around to finger and scrutinize mechanically picked cotton...
...Dictator, noting a button off his Bolshevik caller's shirt, pointed out the deficiency with bantering reproof: "So, Comrade, you call yourself a cultured man!" Cracked back the Soviet journalist, according to his story: "It is easier to buy a tractor in Russia than to buy a button...