Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for Black's confidence in rising sales was delivered to the trucking industry this month. It was a fiber-glass cab, first in the industry, which is designed to cut 1,000 Ibs. to 1,500 Ibs. from the total weight of a tractor-trailer combination, permitting truckers to raise their payload correspondingly...
...with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher taxes on tractor fuel and tools...
...added, "the control of the ruble" works both ways, and now that the virgin lands are turning out bumper crops and the state can store some grain, the state will be able to buy "wherever it is cheaper." This year's decision to break up the state Motor Tractor Stations and sell their equipment to collectives, he said, "marks the beginning of a new stage in economic relations between the state and collective farms. Henceforth, the principle of free sale of produce will be extended," and prices are due for a fall...
Even at the worst of the recession, there was no overall pattern of woe. New England, with its troubled textile industry and heavy manufacturing, was sorely tried. Many of the Midwest's one-industry towns had some rough months. In Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor is not just a barometer of business but the whole weather bureau, 9,000 men were out of work until Cat worked off its big inventory of bulldozers and earth movers. But at the same time, South Dakota's farmers were so thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher...
...lease to Turner for $2,500. Undiscouraged, Turner decided to try his own method. He thought an extremely powerful pump might draw down the water level so fast that the oil locked up in the rock would flow into the bore, where it could be pumped up. Using a tractor for power, Turner soon had the well producing as much oil in a day as the Starr Co. pump had produced in a month...