Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the clatter of hammers, the whine of saws, the growl of a tractor shattered the Pole's chill silence. Under the skilled hands of 24 U.S. Navy Seabees, a tiny community of six multihued polar huts was rising from the snow-the home, for many months to come, of 18 American scientists and Navymen...
FARM UPSWING is reviving agriculture equipment makers after year long slump. International Harvester will add about 1,000 employees and increase tractor output from present 150 to 290 daily at Rock Island and Louisville plants, which were closed this fall for six weeks. Company's August-October sales hit near-record $337 million, as farm prices edged up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest U.S. truckers, ships 600 trailers weekly by piggyback. As a result, the line has laid off some 1,000 of its original 1,350 drivers, is also planning to sell part of its 500-unit tractor fleet...
...event, piggybacking is here to stay. And for all their arguments, truckers will have a tough time selling their worries to any U.S. motorist who has crawled painfully up a long grade behind a line of exhaust-spewing tractor-trailers. Atop the same mountain grades where the Southern Pacific has its piggyback signs, another series of signs has been put up by California citizens' committees. Their message: "Write your Congressman. Make U.S. 40 four lanes." Either that, or, as the Southern Pacific says, put the trucks on piggyback...
...Louis Marx & Co.'s "Tricky Tommy-The Big Brain-Tractor" ($5) is battery-operated, has a driver who appears to shift gears when he bumps into an object, changes direction and keeps rolling...