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...Miscolc, Tractor Driver Rozsi Szabo enrolled for a course in political orientation. She felt, said Rozsi, that she "absolutely had to make a worthy labor offer for Rakosi's birthday...
...crimes to "confess," but their highest hope was that he would admit to organizing a plot to murder Stalin. They were deeply offended when Weissberg not only resisted admitting this, but insisted that he was also innocent of such lesser delinquencies as planning to blow up the Kharkov tractor works, or of building a "counterrevolutionary, Trotskyist, fascist, terrorist, diversionist and espionage organization ... on the territory of the Soviet Union...
Empire, of which McHale was a director, stockholder and counsel, had been roundly denounced for its efforts to buy political influence in Washington. In 1946, Cohen set up the Empire Tractor Corp. out of the remnants of Empire Ordnance. McKinney and McHale each bought 1,000 shares of Empire Tractor stock for $1 a share. Ten months later, they sold their stock back to Cohen. Their profit: $68,000 each. Cohen paid for the stock with money he borrowed from the Empire Tractor Corp. itself. Just a year after McKinney and McHale took out their 6,800% profit, the company...
...last week an excited farm hand rushed into the Chamberlain farmhouse clutching a bottle of oil. Suspecting a hoax, Mrs. Chamberlain at first accused him of siphoning oil from the farm tractor. But it was no joke; the oil came from a gushing well on the farm, sunk where Chamberlain had drilled in vain 40 years before...
...Caterpillar Tractor Co. borrowed $35 million to expand its plants in Joliet and Peoria, Ill., and to build a new plant in York, Pa. which will be used to supply its eastern and Canadian dealers...