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SEYMOUR THE GARDENER has inadvertently mulched his employer, Mrs. Snodgrass, with the John Deere Suburbanite Lawn Tractor. Executors of the Snodgrass estate sue Seymour for the cost of a new tractor transmission. He contests...
...tapes are members of Stanley's family who talk to you about why you got wrong answers on practice tests. They have vaguely Jewish, vaguely Long Island accents and they laugh a lot at their own jokes. "Quite a way to go, no? --Getting mulched by the lawn tractor!" chortles Aunt Miriam. "Ho! Ho! Ho!" You turn the tapes off and figure out for yourself why the other correct answer was the better correct answer. It's comforting to know that the money you have paid for the tapes you don't use is going toward a snazzy new kitchen...
Bankruptcies among farmers are creeping upward; the Farm Credit Administration liquidated 1,024 of the 650,000 loans during the first quarter of 1982, almost double the number in 1981. Manufacturers of farm machinery are directly affected: International Harvester expects to lose $1 billion this year, and Caterpillar Tractor Co. has laid off 17,500 of its 52,700 U.S. workers, including 8,000 in June alone. Other sufferers are the fertilizer companies, whose sales are off sharply for the first time in seven years...
...Laurie Ashbridge sipping from a mug of hot tea handed him by some smiling San Carlos women and children, shown leaning on a fence. When Ashbridge's wife Mandy saw the picture at her home in Tidworth, Hampshire, she remarked, "He never says no to a nice cuppa. "Tractors and Land Rovers have been offered freely to the troops to lug equipment to nearby hills. An 18-year-old boy used his father's tractor to haul gear from the shore. Another boy told the soldiers, "If you want to borrow my Suzuki, go right ahead...
...sales of $15 billion, and analysts now project perhaps as much as $219 million more in losses during the company's 1982 fiscal year that ends next January. Some of Harvester's troubles have come from the recession-caused slump in farm income, which has cut into tractor and farm-equipment sales. Yet many of the firm's woes are traceable to McCardell's bad management...