Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build a base of heavy industry far from dangerous European borders. Around the biggest coal deposit in the world, in the Kuznetsk Basin in mid-Siberia, mines were opened, steel mills built. The huge magnetic iron-ore mountain at Magnitogorsk in the Urals got other mills. A tractor and rifle factory went up at Chelyabinsk near...
...Asked Standard Oil of Ohio to postpone a proposed ½?-a-gal. rise in Diesel, tractor and furnace oil prices...
...tractor whose body can be raised between its wheels to pass over the high tops of growing corn, lowered so that its centre of gravity hugs the ground to give extra traction for plowing. Patent was granted to Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich...
...they had been refused a 10% pay rise. Neil Brant, union organizer, was arrested for defiling the U. S. flag. He had pounded on the flag when it was draped over the chairman's table at a strike meeting. ¶ In Chicago, a strike at the International Harvester Tractor Works threatened to spread to the huge McCormick Works next door. Struck were the Harvester Rock Falls, III. and Richmond, Ind. plants. Argument: higher wages. ¶ In Bridgeville, Pa., 400 workers who struck without authorization from their parent union were fired from their jobs at the Vanadium Corp. plant. Closed...
Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...