Word: tractorized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased. The southern cotton belt is now mechanized. An EGA agricultural mission has introduced better seed grains, better breeding stock, better farming methods. Turkish farmers eagerly accept the new techniques. Last week Ali Kumyol, 42, a heavy-set farmer from Çorlu in Thrace, proudly displayed his John Deere tractor, said it enabled him to double his wheat and barley production. "For the first time since my marriage, I can afford to keep my wife out of the fields," he said. "I never knew she could cook so well. My kids can continue their studies. All this, thanks to Marshall...
Mamazan has a tractor. Grain yields have doubled, cucumber yields multiplied by six. DDT saved the latest melon crop. A young American, Theodore Noe, is the organizer of Mamazan's progress. He represents the Near East Foundation, a private organization backed by voluntary contributions. The N.E.F. put up $20,000 to help Mamazan. Impressed by what the $20,000 bought, Iran's government put a whopping $400,000 into the N.E.F.'s work A ten-year-old who had gone to Noe's school said proudly: "I can teach my father how to transplant lettuce...
With the help of their newly acquired cattrack plow, a tractor with enter pillar treads, the department claims it is ready to cope with any blizzard and have the local University grounds dug out in 12 hours. This includes the grounds of the Business and Medical Schools as well as those of the College and Graduate Center...
Husky young T. C. Gaines, an Arizona farmer, had promised to lend his tractor to a neighbor. One day last May, as good as his word, he delivered the tractor and drove his truck over to the neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else...
Senay, who can cut and weave with the best of them when he is right physically, has been held back by injuries. Just before the start of the 1949 season, a tractor turned over on him, fracturing his leg, and he saw only limited service late in the season. He started this year off well, but was slowed down by an ankle sprain early last month. The other halfback, sophomore Jerry Conway, is small but fast and elusive. He is the back in motion in the split...