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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spills & Falls. Motormaker Wilson is a cattle breeder (Ayrshires), and at Windrow Farms, 20 miles from Longmeadow, has the largest private herd in Michigan. He used to play a fast game of tennis, still fishes and hunts occasionally, and is a good swimmer. He gave up ice skating after breaking his hip in a fall, and reluctantly gave up riding to hounds with the Bloomfield Open Hunt after breaking his shoulder in a spill from a balky hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...sugar-beet harvester that tops the beets, lifts them, shakes the dirt off, drops the beets in a hopper and tosses the tops in a windrow. It makes beet-picking so much cheaper that it may end the long fight over the sugar-beet tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farming De Luxe | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Since the matter is being worked out by each House individually, the various House Masters have developed different methods of organizing the plan. Lowell house members, for example, will receive a general letter stating that adjustments will have to be made; while the Windrow House men who already been selected for doubling-up will be notified of the fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE CAPACITY TO INCREASE THIS FALL | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

...miles. He rode four times to Philadelphia; he could always be trusted to say the right thing. He rode to Durham N.H. to order a raid on the British fort at Portsmouth. Tired, he slept through the raid. He took part in the Boston Tea Party which "spread a windrow of tea from Boston all the way to Dorchester." Without sleep he started for Philadelphia to report what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early American | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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