Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers of the Saturday Evening Post would be greatly disappointed if Alexander Botts, the famed sales manager of the Earthworm Tractor Co., were not up to his neck in trouble. When last heard from (in Author William Hazlett Upson's latest story), Botts had bogged a scraper so deep in the Canadian muskeg that not even his mighty Earthworm tractor could pull it out. But Botts managed it; he used rockets, for a jet-assisted takeoff...
...rockets have yet been used by the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of East Peoria, Ill., which often sounds like the "Earthworm City" of Author Upson's stories (he worked there as a mechanic). But last week "Cat" was ready to bring out something almost as powerful. It was a new model diesel engine, the biggest (12 cylinders), most powerful (500 h.p.), and costliest ($14,000) Cat had ever made...
...rebellion has made far more paupers than the economic situation which the U.S. mission tried to remedy. If the program had provided a tractor, a combine and a herd of Holstein cattle for every peasant in Greece, the people still would not have been able to save their families, houses and possessions from marauding Communist bands...
...Pounds. The story of George Magalios illustrates the point. George, who lived on the outskirts of Karditsa, was a big, handsome man, still dark-haired and active for his years. He had worked hard all his life, and from his savings bought a rare farm possession for Greece, a tractor-drawn combine. With it he had made enough money to educate his eldest son Anastasios, 22, and to build up respectable dowries for his four pretty daughters...
...position is complicated by the similarity between this petrol in its yellow stage and the red petrol which becomes yellow when mixed with the new grey petrol which must be mixed with brown petrol for pleasure trips of more than one-seventh of a mile in a farm tractor...