Word: tractorized
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...hottest farming argument since the tractor first challenged the horse was started last summer by Farmer Edward Faulkner's attack on the moldboard plow -Plowman's Folly (TIME, July 26). Last week returns on the great debate had begun to come in. They were very favorable to Faulkner...
...think the whole situation can be summed up in the word "jealousy." ... (I am a member of the Women's Land Army, age 22, am a tractor driver and steam shovel operator, and until two years ago I was a shorthand typist...
...Higgins to build a boat that would carry tanks into water shallow enough for them to roll ashore. He tried an amphibious tractor ("alligator") that Donald Roebling had invented for rescue use in the Florida Everglades. For two years the aluminum cleats always came off the alligator. But it was the forerunner of today's amphibious tank...
...Army already has four longtime tractor-makers at work: Caterpillar, International Harvester, Allis-Chalmers and Cleveland Tractor. Besides that, two big plants have recently been switched from tank production: American Car & Foundry's at Berwick, Pa. and the new ordnance plant at Decatur, Ill., which got ready for production too late to be needed for tanks. Next month when they are due to be in full swing the tractor program will get a real shot...
...mere plants will not do it. The Army must convince U.S. workers that the tractor, while not as glamorous as a P-47, is even more essential in many areas. Sorest pressed is the South Pacific, where each island hop forward means not only virtual abandonment of rear bases, but a huge new construction job. In effect, the U.S. will cross the Pacific at the speed of a tractor...