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...could collect. On the strength of his anticipated income (which actually ran between $35,000 and $40,000 a year), McKinney borrowed enough more to buy the controlling interest in Indianapolis' Fidelity Trust Co. From its presidency he jumped profitably in & out of real estate, radio stations, tractor manufacturing and professional baseball (Louisville Colonels, Indianapolis Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates). Last spring he resigned as treasurer of the State Democratic Committee and vowed he was through with politics...
...Wednesday afternoon, Deibel jockeyed his shiny orange tractor #684 against the big trailer at Consolidated's Chicago transfer garage. He motioned toward the trailer loaded with 2,350 copies of TIME...
...harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant and his family toss the grain into the air, allowing the wind, as it has for centuries, to separate wheat from chaff. (Sometimes there is the incongruity of a flint sled being pulled around by a bright, red, new, ECA tractor...
...done it. The Turkish Democratic Party says it's their doing. Both acknowledge a valuable assist from Allah, who brought rains at just the right time during the growing season. Most of the $294 million of Marshall Plan aid has been passed on to the farmer: 6,468 tractors, 3,242 disk plows, 6,176 tractor-drawn plows, 4,258 disk harrows...
...personal experience, still vividly remembered, may throw some light on the difficulty of obtaining objective information when conversing with Russians through an official Soviet interpreter. I visited the Cheliabinsk tractor factory as a journalist in 1932. Finding that some of the workers were under prison sentence, I asked several what their offenses had been. A peasant said he had been condemned as a counter-revolutionary because he complained at a collective farm meeting that there was not enough to eat. A worker said he had accidentally damaged a machine, and was promptly condemned to forced labor for "sabotage...