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...Giant Tractor. General Motors entered the earth-moving equipment field last week with a 26-ton, twin-diesel (each engine 190 h.p.) Crawler tractor, more powerful than any now in production. The tractor will be on sale early next year at a price to be set later...
...Stassen argument assumes that the U.S. knows better than the Russians what the Russians really need. Tractors are taken off the embargo list on the ground that Russia produces a lot of them. But last week Moscow's Pravda was bitterly complaining that lagging Russian tractor production was grievously hurting the program of farm expansion. Every tractor shipped to Russia will help make up this lag and could also release Russian capacity for military tank construction...
...case of violation of a disarmament agreement . . . It also became perfectly clear . . . that the Soviet Union would not permit a control organ to . . . deal vigorously with clandestine violations of a disarmament program. To use the precise example which appeared during the meetings, the control organ could not investigate a tractor factory suspected of producing munitions . . . The Soviet Union was less interested in negotiating on disarmament than in launching a large-scale propaganda campaign...
...exhaust fan to carry off the fumes for $20, plus a $200 collection of chisels, wrenches, hammers, screw drivers, vises and pliers. For outdoor work he buys a $125 power lawn mower, a $35 hedge trimmer, a $115 chain saw for work on his trees, a $250 tractor to plow his garden and shovel snow from his driveway. By the time he is finished, he has as much as $2,000 invested in his new hobby, and he can build anything from a toothbrush rack to a ten-room house, and landscape the land...
Portable Power. International Harvester and General Electric teamed up to bring out a portable electric generator that can be installed on a tractor or truck to operate off the engine. "Electrall" will furnish electricity for power tools, insect sprays, paint guns, hay balers, pumps, emergency light and heat...