Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year after he graduated (1941) from Cooper High School, he added a tractor, next a truck and some cows. Soon he was able to advance $2,000 to his father to help him buy a 260-acre place, while he rented 270 acres for himself. In 1943 young Ellison was not so much a Future Farmer as a future country gentleman. In that year, he had 220 acres of cotton, 265 of milo, 27 of Sudan grass, ten of hegari (grain sorghums), 64 hogs, four dairy cattle, two beef cattle, 350 hens. Total net income for the year...
...last week they had grossed $4,000 for their summer's work, and were planning to buy a tractor. Plywood and lumber mills at Shelton, 18 miles away, had bought every stick they could deliver, at OPA prices: $23 a thousand for mill logs, $35 for top-grade plywood "peelers.''* They brought in one scorched, dead Douglas fir which measured 9½ feet at the butt, was 210 feet long, sold...
...money Carolyne will buy an electric refrigerator-if she can find one. Joe might put a small radio in the barn so that he can hear music and news programs while he milks. Eventually the Walls will buy an electric washing machine, and a tractor to spell the mules...
...time grew shorter, procurement got harder. Typical was a hurry-up order for 7,000 big truck tractor and semitrailer vehicles. A.S.F. men grabbed 800 from Army units in the U.S., picked up 200 here & there, cut back production of six other kinds of motor vehicles in U.S. plants to give the trucks priority. They got them built and shipped them...
Bonnie A. Little was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time of his death, although his new commission had not caught up with him. Eyewitness accounts relayed back to his home in Geneva tell how Captain Little led his platoon of amphibious tractors onto the beach in the first assault wave. All men in his tractor were killed except him before the landing was made. Singlehanded, Little pushed on to wipe out a Japanese machine-gun position before he was fatally wounded...