Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more U.S. capital that goes abroad, the better are chances for easing the U.S. foreign-aid load. For U.S. business itself, expansion abroad is simply business foresight. Says William Blackie, executive vice president of Caterpillar Tractor Co. "The whole world is starting to consume at an accelerated clip. Americans have to face the possibility of being shut out of foreign markets unless they build plants overseas...
...Citizens Bank of Americus refused to grant Koinonia more loans; the gas supplier for the farm's heating and cooking, the hardware dealer, the tractor dealer, and the mechanic who serviced the farm vehicles refused to do business with Koinonia. The farm's gas tank was shot up, its roadside produce stand (with cold-storage and meat-processing equipment) was dynamited and destroyed. The main building on an adjoining farm owned by the community was burned to the ground, and later twelve shotgun blasts were fired into the farm, showering some of the Koinonia children with pellets...
Example. In Des Moines, Floyd Kinney canceled a farm-safety lecture to the 4-H Club after he cleaned a tractor with gasoline, washed his hands, lit a cigarette, was taken to the hospital with burns...
Farmer's Friend. An experimental free-piston tractor, which promises to give U.S. farmers more power per dollar than any tractor currently on the market, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Ford's "Typhoon" is powered by the same turbine-like free-piston engine (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955) already being tested in trucks and boats, has the advantage of low fuel cost, simpler construction (no crankshaft, no spark plugs), less vibration and no need for early-morning warmups. The company hopes to put a free-piston tractor on the market within the next few years...
...lived it up: down the corridors of the hospital he loped (as best he could) with his toy cowboy gun hanging from his hip. Back home at Blair House, there were cowboy and Indian suits, a drum, a road-scraper, a Mickey Mouse hat, a bicycle, lollipops, a toy tractor from the President. As if proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter...