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Caterpillar Tractor, now the No. 1 maker of Diesel engines in the U. S., has been a big beneficiary of the New Deal. Rising farm income and PWA expenditures, particularly for road building, boosted sales from $13,000,000 in the first half of 1934 to $18,700,000 this year. Profits for the half were up from...
...Major hurdle was a railroad, which the Government-owned Canadian National eventually built. A 44,550 h.p. power plant was installed on the Churchill River 59 miles farther on in the wilds. Turbines, generators and thousands of tons of supplies were dragged in by horse, barge, tractor and sledge. But by 1930 Flin Flon was nearing its present population of 5,000, and the mine was ready for operation. In that year another $5,000,000 was raised by a bond issue underwritten by J. P. Morgan & Co. Last week as a preliminary to the payment of dividends, the last...
...family either to accompany us when we were exiled or to remain in the U. S. S. R. Sergei decided to remain so as not to be torn away from his scientific work. . . . With two other colleagues he published recently a special work entitled Light Gas Generators of Automobile Tractor Type. This book, published by the Scientific Automobile Tractor Institute, was warmly received by the outstanding specialists in the field. ... I will not speak of the methods by which Stalin obtains the confessions he requires...
...State 4-H club leader who inaugurated the local singing groups. In the opera the heroine, Arline, was played by Virginia Broome Mullane, a farmer's wife who has two children, sings in a church choir. Thaddeus was Evan Davies who studied music in Chicago, now rides a tractor across the fat fields of Iowa. The Gypsy Queen was a chicken authority, Devilshoof one of the smartest farmers in Hardin County...
...Caterpillar Tractor Co., which went into the red when Russia stopped buying tractors, was pulled out late in 1933 by emergency relief road building and the Diesel engine. Earnings for 1934: $3,651,000 against...