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...field. They struggled down the slope and along the lanes cut four rows wide through the 15-acre patch of specially planted corn. In the field stood 18 huskers with their managers and trainers. Beside each was his brand new steel wagon drawn by a rubber-tired tractor. While four bands played and loudspeakers blared, National Guardsmen did their best to keep the friendly crowd from getting in the way of the contestants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Huskers | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Banos, Calif., at the wheel of a plowing tractor, Henry Avilla nodded off to sleep. The tractor crawled on across the ranch yard, plowed a wide furrow through a mile of fields, ditches, roads and splintered fences, came to rest against a tree. There Henry Avilla awoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Caterpillar Tractor was a speculative favorite four years ago when Russia began to worship the tractor. But Caterpillar went into the red when its Red orders stopped. Emergency relief road building programs and public works construction in the U. S. pulled it out late last year. Profits: $2,061,000 for the first six months of 1934 against a deficit of nearly half a million in 1933's first half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profits | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...raise capital to reorganize the bank, return it to private management. If capital is not subscribed within two years, or if no merger with a solvent institution can be arranged, FDIC is authorized to place the new bank in voluntary liquidation, wind up its affairs. East Peoria, whose Caterpillar Tractor Co. foundry was last week closed down to prevent warfare between workers and strike pickets, has not suffered unduly from Depression. But once before, in 1927, the bank was forced to close temporarily when the cashier's accounts were short $192,000?more than 75% of the total deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pay Off | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Stepan Simonovich Dybets, manager of the Soviet Automobile and Tractor Trust, spent several months in the Detroit plants of Henry Ford. Last week in Izvestia he wrote of U. S. v. Soviet industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soap, Shaves & Ford | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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