Word: tractorized
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...years the machine has been slowly taming the hellion lumber industry. The bullwhacker gave way to the steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck. But the trees still had to be cut down by hand. The faller (who chops and saws the tree), the bucker (who saws the timber into logs) were indispensable reminders of the lusty, whiskered logger of old. They may not be much longer. Like the black cotton pickers of the South,* they are on their way to limbo...
...build a base of heavy industry far from dangerous European borders. Around the biggest coal deposit in the world, in the Kuznetsk Basin in mid-Siberia, mines were opened, steel mills built. The huge magnetic iron-ore mountain at Magnitogorsk in the Urals got other mills. A tractor and rifle factory went up at Chelyabinsk near...
...Asked Standard Oil of Ohio to postpone a proposed ½?-a-gal. rise in Diesel, tractor and furnace oil prices...
...tractor whose body can be raised between its wheels to pass over the high tops of growing corn, lowered so that its centre of gravity hugs the ground to give extra traction for plowing. Patent was granted to Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich...
...they had been refused a 10% pay rise. Neil Brant, union organizer, was arrested for defiling the U. S. flag. He had pounded on the flag when it was draped over the chairman's table at a strike meeting. ¶ In Chicago, a strike at the International Harvester Tractor Works threatened to spread to the huge McCormick Works next door. Struck were the Harvester Rock Falls, III. and Richmond, Ind. plants. Argument: higher wages. ¶ In Bridgeville, Pa., 400 workers who struck without authorization from their parent union were fired from their jobs at the Vanadium Corp. plant. Closed...