Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rarely without a pipe in his mouth, a pencil in his hand and an idea for "a better way" to do whatever is being done. At home, in peacetime, he relaxed by working in a cellar machine shop building boats, driving a tractor on his New Hampshire farm. Now much too busy to indulge his various hobbies, he nonetheless startled his wife this winter by suddenly taking up late evening basket-weaving...
Beset by the scarcity of farm labor and machinery, Farmer Hulbert needed a tractor. When Twin Falls County auctioned off a secondhand 1940 International (list price: $1,200), which had been used for weed control, he gladly made the winning bid of $1,050. As he was about to collect his prize the OPA tapped him on the shoulder, and said: if you pay a penny more than the OPA ceiling price of $723.56 for this model you will be guilty of violating the Price Control Act of 1942. Alarmed, Farmer Hulbert forthwith ceased and desisted. Promptly Twin Falls County...
Twin Falls County prepared an appeal to Idaho's Supreme Court. Farmer Hulbert went serenely about his spring chores. Having deposited $1,050 with the district court, he has been using the tractor all through the legal fight...
...plaque is in memory of 'the valiant dead and 68 missing' of an amphibious tractor battalion. Another commemorates the heroism of the officers and men of the Special Weapons Unit...
...hottest farming argument since the tractor first challenged the horse was started last summer by Farmer Edward Faulkner's attack on the moldboard plow -Plowman's Folly (TIME, July 26). Last week returns on the great debate had begun to come in. They were very favorable to Faulkner...