Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FARM-TRACTOR SALES this year will trail 1955 volume by at least 20%, the industry believes. Falling sales, because of drought and lagging farm income, will force International Harvester Co. to halt production at two plants for at least five weeks, starting Oct. 1. Farm-equipment slump has also prompted merger talks between Chicago's J. I. Case Co., which has shut down two plants, and money-losing Oliver Corp...
...rising tide of Indian nationalism swept him into the revolutionary politics of the Indian National Congress Party. And once he met Gandhi, the die was cast. Two men more diverse than Nehru and the frail little Mahatma could hardly be imagined. Devoted to the scientific socialism of the tractor and the big machine, Nehru could scarcely comprehend the distrust of machine civilization which Gandhi symbolized with his home spinning wheel, and he was outraged when Gandhi proclaimed a disastrous earthquake to be divine punishment for India's moral imperfections...
...upsurge in highway and heavy construction more than doubled H. K. Porter's first half 1955 net to $4,000,000 in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. rolled up profits of $26.2 million, 69% above a year ago. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. nearly doubled its net to $12.5 million...
...Anderson, a stolid, philosophical farmer, came out of his troubles by tightening his belt. Last February, when he was due to make a big payment on his $1,200 International Harvester tractor, he sold it and bought a $600 John Deere model, with about the same power but fewer gadgets. ("I do the same work at half the price," he explains.) Last month when a payment came due on his 1952 car, he sold it and bought a 1950 model. With the difference, he had $275 left over to apply on other bills. He wanted a new harrow...
...less of a plantation than an agricultural factory. Last year the Eastland plantation had about 1,900 acres in cotton, the remainder in corn, soybeans, oats, barley and pasturage. Under Eastland's close supervision, the land is cultivated according to the most scientific information available. Each spring, tractor-pulled applicators, straddling four rows at a time, inject seventy tons of anhydrous ammonia to the exact depth of 15 inches into the Eastland soil. Heavy plows bite deep into the Delta loam and turn under 150 tons of carefully prepared silage. Tons of cottonseed hulls provide humus for sections where...