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...creeping over the New England landscape this winter and obligingly carrying rubbernecks to the heights of mountain ranges. The "Sno-Cat", a cabin cruiser on tractor treads, carries sightseers up the slopes to spectacular panoramas that were once granted only to skiers...
Ferguson Lands. Harry Ferguson, Inc., which lost its old tractor-making partner, the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, July 21), imported the first 200 tractors from its new supplier, Standard Motor Co. Ltd., of Coventry, England. Standard, which is shipping 100 tractors a day, hopes they will help U.S. sales of its new 72-h.p. automobile (price: "less than $2,000"). The tractors and cars will have many interchangeable parts...
Capa was refused permission to shoot the antlike activity at the Stalingrad tractor plant (and later had 100 of his 4,000 negatives confiscated). They came home convinced that the Soviets, who keep the permanent foreign correspondents cooped up in Moscow, have the world's worst sense of public relations. "The Embassy people and the [regular] correspondents feel alone, feel cut off, they are island people in the midst of Russia, and it is no wonder that they become lonely and bitter," Steinbeck wrote. "But if it had been part of our job to report news as they must...
...Tractor Deal. Harry Ferguson, Inc. found a new manufacturer for the tractors which Henry Ford II had stopped building for Inventor Ferguson (TIME, July 21). It was Sir John Black's Standard Motor plant at Coventry, England. Standard, already building 250 tractors a day for Ferguson's English company, will build another 250 a day for Harry Ferguson, Inc. to sell in the U.S. They will be powered with Continental motors imported from the U.S. (Ferguson found that would be cheaper than assembling the motor and British frames...
Last week, ex-Partner Ferguson played his last card. In New York's Federal Court, he sued Henry Ford II, Dearborn Motors Corp., the Ford Motor Co. and others for $251 million damages. He charged 1) patent infringements, and 2) conspiracy to monopolize the farm tractor and implement business. Ferguson claimed that the Ford Motor Co. had "recognized the validity [of his patents] and placed the statutory patent notice on all tractors manufactured down to June 1947." He wanted to collect triple damages on the 37,000 tractors Ford has made since the split, and other damages for having...