Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, Harvester would do the farmer's reaping, picking and binding, with corn-and cotton-pickers, beet harvesters, self-propelled combines. But like the U.S. farmer, Harvester had its eye firmly fixed on the all-purpose tractor. This year the company turned out 108,000 tractors, more than any other piece of heavy equipment. Next year it intends to cover the market, from the giant 18-ton, 170-h.p. diesel crawler to the midget Farmall Cub, selling for $545 f.o.b. (about $1,000 with attachments). The Cub was designed to mechanize some of the 3,300,000 U.S. farms...
...farmer was spending his money wisely. The bright sky might be the limit for what some would pay for a tractor or slightly used auto on the black market. But most of the farmers' spending was going into better living-running water, bathrooms, electricity and appliances, kitchen labor-savers. Nothing was too good; some farmers were buying airplanes and putting landing strips in their fields. Kansans were reaching for more land, as they always had in prosperous times. But now they were paying mostly cash; Kansans remember all too well the disasters of mortgage foreclosures in the early...
Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting...
...nine of the 20 acres, and eight tons of feed worth ?1,200, had already been plowed under. As the tractor-driver reversed his machine and drove it out of the field, he shrugged his shoulders. "I have my orders," he said...
Stop That Tractor. Telephone wires quivered. Officials scurried. In the buckwheat field the implacable plow buried the rich crop in deep furrows. At 11 o'clock a flustered Farmers' Union official raced into the field. "Stop!" he cried. He brought a counter-order from the Farmers' Union, after consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture...