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...efficiently to cover the costs of higher wages and higher benefits. Snapped R. Conrad Cooper, U.S. Steel Corp. vice president and top industry negotiator: "The basic position of the steel companies is not about to crumble whether or not there is an injunction." And even though auto assembly lines, tractor plants and construction projects were shut down-and unemployment spread to 300,000 beyond steel's own 500,000 strikers-U.S. industry seemed generally willing to back the steel companies on principle...
...overfamiliar Soviet plot, in which boy meets tractor girl and lives happily ever after raising norms, was getting too much for even barnyard critics to take. Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette, newspaper of the writers' union, published a letter reflecting the collective complaints of 19,000 "milkmaids, swineherds, calf-maids, gardeners, field hands, tractor drivers and collective farm chairmen.'' Gist: Soviet writers should stop filling their novels with foolishly detailed descriptions of farm chores they know nothing about and calling the result literature...
...Cape Cod summer home. While Morgan traveled in private railway cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief delight is to get out in the country, climb onto a tractor to harrow or mow a field. He likes to polish his own shoes, buys his suits off the rack at Tripler...
...dawn broke over Illinois' cornlands last week, Farmer John Landers, 38, who owns 400 acres near Grand Ridge, opened wide the throttle of his big International tractor and roared into a 20-acre cornfield. The three heads on his $2,400 corn picker attacked the tall standing rows of corn. Long before Farmer Landers had made even one turn around the field, the trailer hitched to his tractor was overflowing with fat, golden ears. His expected yield: 90 bu. to the acre, v. less than 60 last year...
Collection Agency. In Amherst, N.Y., Norman Granville was arrested on a larceny charge when police discovered that he was building an addition to his home with 1 ) a tractor that had vanished from a tractor sales company, 2) $125 worth of plywood missing from a nearby home under construction, 3) two automobile wheels taken from an auto agency...