Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the tractor in the lead...
...Standard's entire prewar line. Believing the only way to compete in the postwar market at home and abroad was to concentrate quantity production on a single, low-priced car, Black put Standard to work on the Vanguard. (He also got the manufacturing rights to the famed Ferguson tractor in all markets except the American and Philippine.) While most British industries struggled along with decrepit equipment, Sir John spent $40 million modernizing his plant. Standard now has three plants equipped to turn out 100,000 cars and 100,000 tractors a year and last year grossed $132 million...
First to testify last week was burly Jess M. Ritchie of Oakland, Calif., coinventor and manufacturer of AD-X2. He confessed that he was really a "catskinner" (tractor operator) who had stumbled on to his secret formula and was bewildered by science, bureaucracy and his own invention. He refused to reveal the secret formula, but identified the main ingredients as anhydrous sodium sulphate and "a slightly basic, nearly anhydrous magnesium sulphate." That, snapped Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a licensed pharmacist, "is nothing but Glauber's salt and Epsom salts. One of them you give to horses...
...sponsored RIAS radio. During the night some of their leaders were arrested; next day they all struck, and would not return to work even after a Russian officer offered to free the arrested men if they would go back. Joined by strikers from a rope plant and tractor factory, they marched around the mill demanding lower production norms and a 40% cut in prices, shouted for overthrow of the Communist regime, tore down Communist posters, ripped party pins off Communist lapels. They marched on Brandenburg proper, stormed the city prison and freed political prisoners. They spotted the district attorney, seized...
...wood and water. After he finished high school with high marks at 15, he seemed to lose interest in education. He took a wild trip to California with five other rangy young Texans, worked as a hasher and an elevator operator there, then hitchhiked home to take a tractor-driving job. All this distressed his mother. Lyndon Johnson still remembers the late Sunday morning after a full Saturday night when she sat on his bed, softly admonishing him: "To think that my eldest born would ever be satisfied with a life like this ..." Lyndon turned his head to the wall...