Word: tractored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle for collectivization, Stalin told Churchill, was harder to win than the war against Hitler, and he killed or starved to death an estimated 6,000,000 Russians in winning it. In that battle, the dictator's fortresses and control posts in the Russian countryside were the state tractor stations that he set up to supply machinery to the collective farms...
Powered Dowry. In Paradise, Calif., the Post ran a personal notice: "A wealthy young Paradise widow very desirous of meeting young man of marriageable age with tractor-it must be in good shape. Please bring photo of tractor to Campbell's Waffle Shop ... I always eat there...
...Gasping Tractors. One hundred miles from the Pole, the going got worse. The altitude, 11,000 ft., made the faithful tractors gasp for breath, and the snow got so soft that they often sank deeply into it and had to be manhandled out. Once the unemotional Hillary radioed: "I thought at one time that this might be the end of the line for the tractor train." But the tractors made it, and Hillary would have been all right, of course, if they had not. He was carrying emergency gear and supplies for foot travel to the U.S. base...
...Tractor. He soon caught the fancy of Co-Founder Charles E. Merrill, himself an Amherst man, and rose fast from salesman to bond department manager to sales manager. Carrying out Charlie Merrill's expansion policies, Win Smith in 1940 initiated and was a chief negotiator in the merger with E. A. Pierce & Co., was made managing partner of the joint firm. A year later he helped bring Fenner & Beane into the combine. From 1944 onward, Smith really ran the company for ailing Directing Partner Merrill. When Merrill died * (TIME, Oct.15, 1956), Smith took his title...
...East 72nd Street to his Wall Street office in a four-man car pool. He stays at his desk seven to ten hours a day, takes work home two or three nights a week. He relaxes on weekends at his 118-acre Connecticut farm near Litchfield by driving a tractor or romping with his seven-year-old son (a son by his first marriage is an Episcopal minister teaching at Yale Divinity School...