Foreign News: Fine Gentleman

Such a party as exuberant Russians best know how to give they gave in 1929 for a Man from Montana, also exuberant.

Russia was then in the early stages of her Five-Year Plan which came to its end this week (see above). She wanted to mechanize ten million acres of Soviet farm land. Out in Montana was Thomas Donald Campbell, mechanized-farming pioneer. True, his Campbell Farming Corp. "operates" only 95,000 acres, which look small beside ten million acres, but the Soviet Government decided that Mr. & Mrs. Campbell were people to honor. They were...

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