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Last week, in Fort Worth, Tex., the ponderous right hand of World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey described a motion that sportsmen had begun to believe it might never describe again. After hours spent thrashing the harvest in advance, Champion Dempsey reached for a pen and signed an agreement to fight another fight. A second dotted line was signed by Promoter Tex Rickard of Manhattan. No place, no opponent was named, but Dempsey committed himself to encounter either of the two logical challengers-Gene Tunney or Harry Wills-and Rickard indicated that either his New Madison Square Garden...
...peaches in Georgia and the South Atlantic States; who, a little later still, picks our strawberries in Maryland, and who, still later, spreads all over the country, winding up perhaps at «a construction camp in Oklahoma, a tomato cannery in Delaware or New Jersey, or the wheat harvest in the Dakotas...
Vastly more solid is the International Harvester Co., which makes practically every tool the farmer may need: beet pullers manure spreaders cane mills motor coaches coiled springs motor truck units corn bundlers movers corn cultivators plows corn pickers potato diggers corn shellers rakes corn shredders reapers cream separators culti-packers seeding machines engines side rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield...
...sold seven, at $100 apiece. The family farm became a rural factory, turning out 29 machines in 1843, 50 in 1844. Then Cyrus McCormick bestrode his horse and rode into the Midwest. He saw the vast prairies, saw hogs turned loose in wheat that men had not time to harvest. He rode through Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio and New York proclaiming the reaper, calling...
...flowing the wrong way. But it was busy and McCormick saw that it was good. After two minutes' talk, Chicago's first mayor, William B. Ogden, bought a half partnership and McCormick proceeded to build his factory. They sold $50,000 worth of reapers for the next harvest...