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...only Americans in Vladivostok are the experts maintained by the Caterpillar Tractor company of Peoria...
...could imagine. In rags and tatters, holes in their coarse cotton stockings, torn, heeless shoes, their dresses ripped and burst, dirty-they can't get soap to wash their faces and hands-and no cosmetics to make up. About as much sex appeal as a busted down tractor, but somehow they grab off the sailor lads...
...Blagovyeschensk, 850 mi. beyond Irkutsk, the flyers encountered their first serious trouble when the Winnie Mae mired in mud. It was 14 hours before a detachment of soldiers with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This...
Came a picture of a laughing camel last week from Stalingrad-namesake town of Dictator Josef Stalin. At the Stalingrad Tractor Works ("world's largest") there have been 2,789 breakdowns of machinery in four months. Production for 1930 was scheduled at 50,000 tractors. It was 47,000 tractors behind schedule at the close of the year...
...sunny southlands upon which are sprinkled such romantic cities as Seville, Granada, Cordoba, Cadiz. In joint session at Seville last week the governors of Spain's sunniest provinces decided that something must be clone at once to end unemployment. They did that something. They decreed that hereafter "no tractor or other mechanical farm implement" shall be used in southern Spain. With farm machinery at a standstill there will be work for many, many farmhands-so reasoned the picturesque governors. Their decree, of course, is Russia's Five Year Plan in reverse. Spain has just become a Republic...