Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface. At the time, India had no tools tough enough for such a job. Then came World War II and with it an army of snorting U.S. tractors to build the Burma Road. When the war was over, Sethi persuaded his government to buy 200 of the tractors, teamed up with a U.S. engineer to found the Central Tractor Organization...
...kans fighters met handicaps. Landlords and peasants alike protested the "ruining of the land." Many a native tractor driver, leaving his machine in a field overnight, returned to find a tiger sleeping in the driver's seat. Wild elephants, nature's tractors, frequently came to inspect their mechanized cousins. Bulldozers had to be drafted to build roads through the wilderness to carry fuel to the big machines. Despite India's heat and dust, the drivers-many of whom had driven tanks in the Indian army-kept their machines in top condition. When the tractors successfully cleared...
They leased a 237-acre plot near Managua, got a $7,000 bank loan, bought a tractor on credit, and set to work. Neither of them had ever operated a tractor before. "We had a big field," Dick recalls, "so we just turned her loose and fiddled around until we sort of got the hang of it." Once they found out how to run the tractor, they fitted it with lights and ran it at night...
...freak farm accident in Castle-blayney two years ago, Cyril Morrison, nine-year-old son of an Irish farm worker, got himself pinned between a tractor and a stone wall. The accident splintered the boy's jaw and sent a knifelike sliver slicing across the base of his tongue. It cut the tongue off close to the roots...
Missouri-born, farm-bred Bill Roberts went to Allis-Chalmers as a salesman in 1924, fresh from the Springfield (Mo.) Business College and a position with a Missouri road construction company. In 1931 he Became sales manager of the tractor division, and ten years later its general manager. The division developed such products as the first tractor with rubber tires, an all-crop harvester that outsold every other combine, a huge 20-ton crawler tractor, and during World War II made high-speed crawler prime movers for the Army. Since the end of the war, the tractor division...