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Outside the little (pop. 5,230) town of Jacarezinho, 335 miles upcountry from São Paulo, several hundred farmers watched a big tractor rip a stump out of the rich red earth. Said one grizzled farmer to Nelson Rockefeller, who had come all the way from New York for the occasion: "I've seen you do in five minutes what it would take me five weeks to do with my horse." Already Rockefeller's Empresa de Mecanizaçāo Agricola, S.A., (Agricultural Mechanization Co.) had enough orders for pulling stumps and clearing land to keep...
...Miss Minnesota"), was named "Miss America of 1948," winning a $5,000 scholarship, a Nash car, and untold publicity. Her measurements: height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 138 Ibs.; bust 37 in. Her talent: she played the vibraharp. Said "Bebe": "I am only a farm girl. I drive a tractor. I clean the chicken coops. I mix cement...
...Junk. At war's end, IAPI agents buzzed all over the U.S. buying trucks, bulldozers and other war surplus. Often they were more interested in lining their own pockets than in quality goods. Example: in 1947 a Philadelphia outfit called the Empire Tractor Co. sold 7,000 tractors, actually jeep engines on light metal frames, to an eager IAPI agent. Priced originally at a bargain $1,150, the machines wound up costing $1,400 apiece. The Argentines took only 4,500, claimed that the tractors couldn't even pull a plow. Only four Empire tractors have ever been...
...before the public break. Last week, the Yugoslav Communist Party prepared to distribute a pamphlet containing Tito's replies. As few other documents have in recent years, the correspondence revealed the Marxist world's strange, stifling atmosphere of fear and arrogance, bickering and bombast. If the Earthworm Tractor Company's Alexander Botts had a course in Leninism he could have written letters like these...
Comeback. Harry Ferguson, who lost his tractor supplier when Henry Ford II bowed out (TIME, July 21, 1947), completed a new $11.5 million, 72-acre factory in Detroit. He expects to get into production in 60 days, turn out 250 tractors a day within a year...