Word: tractorized
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...Heavy machines in large cases constituted most of the cargo of the Vestris. Included were: 650 cases automobiles, 600 shipped by General Motors Co. to Montevideo: 240 cases automobile accessories; 68 cases typewriters: 86 cases cash registers: 31 cases truck chasses: 58 cases tractor parts; 66 tractors: and in varying amounts, railroad materials, furnaces, gas engines, steel office furniture, motorcycles, divers hardware. There was considerable mail, including diplomatic correspondence with U. S. consular agents...
Henry Ford was in England, dining with Lloyd George and Sir Harry E. Brittain,-* giving away a Ford car here, a Fordson tractor there, visiting farms and factories, stating that he regarded Great Britain as the centre of the Old World. Mrs. Ford was with...
...much that I was telling a farmer friend about it yesterday. As it happened, my friend had just been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing...
...Power. The soloist is Richard Dix; the accompanist, Mary Brian, and the main theme based on that good old folksong-how the hero fixed up the heroine's papa's business. This was accomplished by driving the Stoddard tractor over oozy roads in time to arrive at the dam with tons of dynamite before the flood washed out the entire' valley. That "sells" the population on Papa Stoddard's tractors and closes the hero's deal for the heroine's hand. It is the kind of summer orchestration that needs no encore...
...entered the cockpit. At 7:52 a. m. he was roaring down the runway, his plane lurching on the soft spots of the wet ground. Out of the safety zone, he hit a bump, bounced into the air, quickly returned to earth. Disaster seemed imminent; a tractor and a gully were ahead. Then his plane took the air, cleared the tractor, the gully; cleared some telephone wires. Five hundred onlookers believed they had witnessed a miracle. It was a miracle of skill...