Word: tractorized
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Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting...
Maryland also boasts a well rounded set of backs, as interchangeable as the parts of a Ford tractor. Key man in the offense is 200 pound fullback Hank Corrado. Operating from a single wing and a T, Joe Gianclli, 155 pound flutterback, calls the signals and may got away this afternoon for some long runs...
...Some 2,000 Colorado Shriners dressed up like Arabs and went to the Great Sand Dunes National Monument for an induction ceremony. They penetrated the sandy wastes in tractor-drawn wagons, put up a ceremonial tent, ate barbecued buffalo and applauded dancing girls whom they had brought along to undulate on the sands...
Straighten a Muddle. When Ernest R. Breech became the executive vice president of Ford in 1946-and began straightening out its muddled accounting system -he looked hard at the tractor deal. The tractors, said he, were costing Ford more to make than Ferguson paid for them. So Breech ended the contract, as of June 30. Ernie Breech also had a personal interest in tractors. Henry II had lured high-priced men like Breech into the company by giving them stock in a new farm-equipment company, the Dearborn Motors Corp. Thus the personal fortunes of the top Ford officials depended...
...still unfloated, the plant still idle. Worse, many of his dealers had deserted to Dearborn Motors. They would find their new product, retailing at $1,095 f.o.b. Detroit, familiar. At the party on Dearborn Motors' experimental farm - purchased last year from Henry II-those who saw the new tractor thought it looked so much like the Ford-Ferguson machine that many predicted a patent squabble...