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Just as the Soviets once mythologized the tractor and the assembly line as the magic elements that would help Russia overcome its backwardness, they are now placing a mystical faith in modern technology as the solution to their myriad of problems. The Russians have even done a complete turnabout on computers, which for years they dismissed as both unnecessary and distinctly un-Marxist. Cybernetics, the old argument went, stressed technical and managerial facts rather than social and political forces as the decisive factors in administering societies...
...Carbide is searching for new "convenience technology" products to increase profits. Last year the company earned $158 million on $3 billion in revenues, or 15% less earnings than in 1969. Now Carbide is having great success with Seed Tape, a ribbon of poly-oxide plastic containing seeds. Using a tractor mounted with a reel of tape, a farmer can plant a crop uniformly. The seeds are evenly spaced, and the tape dissolves when sprayed with water. This eliminates the costly problem of uneven planting, which often causes crops to mature at an irregular rate and forces farmers to reap several...
...Tungching People's Commune near Nanking has a farm implements workshop where homemade steel is produced for tractor harrow blades. Even though the Nanking Iron and Steel Works plant is less than five miles away, the commune insisted on making its own steel as part of the drive for self-reliance...
...most competent staff in New York City. Now we take every occupation and every wage in the country, and we evaluate them. We look and we see that we don't want to be known as teamsters anymore; I want to be an 'operational engineer'. What does a tractor driver get, for instance? All you can visualize when you hear 'sanitation worker' is this guy throwing trash in the backs of trucks. What you don't realize is that there are compressors and hydraulic snow plows on these trucks. This is a highly specialized, mechanical operation, and we should...
...husband and four children, fed and watered the chickens, and washed the first of three loads of laundry. Then she puts in a full day in the fields, helping to sort pigs and cattle, unloading hay bales and gathering the six dozen eggs she sells daily. She drives a tractor, spreads manure, fills silos and hauls in grain. It is hard work, and Marcia, 34, loves every minute of it. It annoys her no end, she says, that "although there is no doubt in my mind that women in farming are among America's greatest career women...