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...price came out: $1,090, f.o.b. Toledo. Some farmers, who apparently hoped the jeep would be at the Model T Ford price level, suddenly began to find objections. Said Iowa Farmer A. J. Loveland: "Personally, I think it's too high. After the war you might buy a tractor and a car for $1,090." Said Iowa State Agriculture Secretary Harry D. Linn: "Jeeps will fit in well for runabout errands. But I can't see how the practical farmer is going to go crazy over it. They shake your teeth...
...Many industries will not have to reconvert. Makers of steel, bearings, bolts, nails, hand tools will have no changes to make except in the detailed specifications of their product; 77% of the output of tractor makers is still tractors; 65% of the output of textile mills is still of prewar type; even 36% of the output of the automobile industry is still "motor vehicles and parts...
...years later, with $30,000 and an agricultural degree in his pocket, Sam Higginbottom went back to India with modern implements and began farming 275 acres of the poorest land he could find. Discarding the surface-scratching wooden plows which Indians had used for centuries, he cut deep with tractor-drawn, modern plowshares-into amazingly rich soil. His seed sprouted into such grainfields as India had seldom seen...
Almost any G.I. in China theater could have enlarged the indictment. Widespread thievery is the secret grievance the average American soldier holds against China. At one base the rotor and timing gear on a tractor used for loading heavy bombers were stolen. The parts could not be replaced in China...
Objective. In Lincolnshire, England, the Chronicle ran the following advertisement : "Owner of tractor wishes to correspond with widow who owns a modern Foster, thrasher; object matrimony; send photograph of machine." Hooping Cough. In Kingston, R.I.,the Rhode Island State basketball team prepared for its game in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where smoking is permitted, by practicing with smudge pots of stale tobacco on the sidelines...