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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1945
Page
7
George L. Gillette surveys how modern farm equipment cut labor, improved yields, and tamed weather risks. He notes tractors, combines, electrical irrigation, and machine milking boosted productivity, with durable designs and postwar prospects strengthening the farm equipment industry.
The farm equipment industry has long backed soil conservation to stem soil loss from one crop farming. With postwar machines and tools, manufacturers aim to boost productivity while aiding the nation’s food security, supporting farmers through education and cooperative efforts with government programs.
A 1940s era analysis notes massive growth in federal civil payrolls from 1.6 billion in 1939 to 6.3 billion in 1943, with New York and California receiving large shares and New Hampshire dipping. It discusses government indebtedness, private wealth mortgaged, and debates labor versus taxes and materials costs, touching on Pullman cars, labor shares, and dangers of totalitarian ideologies.
The article notes Winston Churchill turning down a knighthood to avoid triggering a peerage that would place Randolph Churchill in the House of Lords, potentially blocking his aim for a Commons career. It also details wartime steel allocation debates at the War Production Board, led by Cap Krug, and the clash between auto interests and other manufacturers over sheet steel distribution.
It is easier and cheaper to prevent breakdowns than to fix them. Farmers of 1946 will use the same prewar machinery as in 1944. Each farm should have a shelter/workshop to service equipment during bad weather. Equipment should be cleaned and stored as it finishes its job.
With Winchell absent this month, the column will be written by guest contributors. The arrangement shifts the regular feature to a series of substitute writers under his established column format.
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