ANNIVERSARY

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ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR and memorable exposi­ a group five hours to pass a given point if lined up single file. tions ever staged by an industry was conducted by the Inter­ The exhibit, presented in an educational manner to give the national Harvester Company, October 18 to November 2 city dweller an idea of the progress made on the farm during the inclusive, in Burnham Park on Chicago's lake front, in celebra­ past 100 years, contained farm machines, motor trucks, indus­ tion of "Harvester's 100 Years in Chicago." trial tractors, stationary engines, and refrigeration displays. The exposition was preceded, on October 13, by the dedication Each type of product manufactured by International Harvester of a historical plaque at the north end of the Michigan Avenue was displayed, from the newly introduced Farmall Cub tractor bridge over the Chicago River, commemorating the establish­ to the giant 36,000-pound International TD-24 crawler tractor, ment nearby, in 1847, of the first reaper factory by Cyrus Hall among the heaviest earth-moving machines in the world. McCormick; by a civic luncheon at noon, October 17, given Featured in the new line of products were the Company's new by the Company for more than 1,000 leaders in Chicago's civic, one-man hay baler, one-man cotton picker, one-man self-pro­ professional, spiritual, and business life, and by a preview of pelled combine, the latest model beet harvester, and two-row the exhibit by the guests following the luncheon. corn picker, also operated by one man. Other main events of the celebration period were a special Supplementing the displays, both outdoors and in tents, was a one-hour broadcast of the Company's radio program, ' 'Harvest huge "big top" entertainment tent with radio and vaudeville of Stars," from the Chicago Stadium on Sunday afternoon, talent in daily variety shows. This show alone played to an October 19, with Chicago employes of the Company and their audience of approximately 150,000 visitors during its run. families present; and the dedication, on October 21, of the Company's new Manufacturing Research Building and its exten­ sive research facilities, at 5225 South Western Avenue, Chicago. THE OBSERVANCE OF "Harvester's 100 Years in Chicago" Attendance at the lake front exhibit greatly exceeded the formed a most fitting tribute by the Company to the city of highest expectations, with approximately 500,000 visitors for Chicago as its place of origin, and to the importance of the city the 17-day period that began with the luncheon guests' pre­ in the Company's present world-wide operations. view. Among the visitors who swarmed over the 10-acre plot For a full century the progress of International Harvester to view the 275 tractors and machines, valued at more than has paralleled that of Chicago. The contrast between the little $500,000, and see other historical and manufacturing exhibits town of Chicago of a century ago and the metropolis of today is under canvas, were huge delegations of farm folk who came in, as marked as that between Cyrus McCormick's first small reaper largely on special excursion trains, from Illinois, Indiana, factory and the six major manufacturing plants of the Company Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, now operating in the Chicago area. Nearly every division of Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsyl­ the Company is represented by a plant in that area. vania, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas, and employe groups from In Chicago, too, are the Company's Research organization, its 44 of the Company's branches in 17 middle western states. printing plant, its Central School for Harvester Personnel, four During the high point of attendance at the exhibition on motor truck sales and service stations, and the General Offices. Illinois Day, 17,000 persons per hour passed through the en­ Thirty thousand of the Company's 90,000 employes in the trance gates. It was estimated that it would have taken such United States arc employed in the Chicago area. *«•

ANNIVERSARY BANNER AT IH GENERAL OFFICES ON CHICAGO S MICHIGAN AVENUE •:::.|^ THE PLAQUE IN PLACE On Chicago's Michigan Avenue bridge.

COMMEMORATIVE

Plaque dedicated at site of reaper factory established 100 years ago by Cyrus McCormick

IN A QUIET CEREMONY attended by a group an event which took place 100 years T. J. White, president, Chicago Herald- of Chicago business and civic leaders. ago. American; Marshall Field, editor and Fowler McCormick, chairman of the "We dedicate this plaque to the publisher, Chicago Sun; Richard J. Fin- Board of Directors, International Har­ memory of Cyrus Hall McCormick and negan, editor and publisher, Chicago vester Company, and grandson of Cyrus in commemoration of the establishment Times; ]o\ia D. Ames, editor and publish­ Hall McCormick, inventor of the first of his reaper works in 1847 on the site er, Chicago Journal of Commerce; Chauncey successful reaper, unveiled a bronze which lies just to the east of us. McCormick, member of the Board, Inter­ plaque October 13 on Chicago's Michigan "May we be given the courage and the national Harvester; Oscar E. Hewitt, Avenue bridge, adjacent to the site of ability to carry forward the enterprise commissioner of public works. City of the first reaper factory established by the that here found its first home." Chicago; James G. Gately, president, inventor in 1847. The ceremony was the Martin H. Kennelly, mayor of Chicago, Chicago Park District; George T. Dona­ first formal event in the Company's responded on behalf of the city, describ­ hue, superintendent, Chicago Park Dis­ observance of "Harvester's 100 Years in ing the growth of the Harvester Company trict; C. J. Whipple, chairman of the Chicago," preceding by five days the and terming it symbolic of Chicago's board, Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett, Inc.; opening of the Company's huge exposi­ first 100 years. Leon Mandel, chairman of the board, tion on a 10-acre expanse flanking the Other special guests at the ceremony, Mandel Brothers; Leverett Lyon, chief south half of Soldier Field. invited by John L. McCaffrey, Interna­ executive officer, Chicago Association of "We are here to honor a man," said tional Harvester president, were: Col. Commerce; P. K. Wrigley, chairman of Mr. McCormick, "whose accomplish­ Robert R. McCormick, editor and pub­ the board, Wm. Wrigley, Jr., Company; ments and influence were of great con­ lisher, Chicago Tribune; John S. Knight, and Paul M. Angle, secretary, Chicago structive value, and to commemorate editor and publisher, Chicago Daily News; Historical Society. LOOKING NORTH ACROSS the Michigan Avenue bridge and toward the site (jo the right) of the original McCormick factory, now hedged by typical build­ ings of a great city. The three tall structures are Qjrom left): Wrigley Building, Sheraton Hotel, and Tribune Tower.

FOWLER MCCUKMIUK. l^/if/r^ and MAYOR MARTIN H. KENNELLY unvciling the plaque, near the site of the first McCormick reaper factory.

AT THE PLAQUE DEDICATION ccremony (Jrom left'): Marshall Field, editor and publisher, Chicago •$•»»/John D. Ames, editor and publisher, Chicago Journal oj Commerce; Giles C. Hoyt, executive vice president. International Harvester Company; Oscar E. Hewitt, commissioner of public works, City of Chicago; M. F. Peckels, manager, IH con­ sumer relations department; John L. McCaffrey, president. International Harvester Company; Lt. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, Jr., executive vice president. International Harvester; Col. Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher, Chicago Tribune; Leon Mandel, chairman of the board, Mandel Brothers; P. V. Moulder, executive vice president. International Harvester; and Dale Cox, IH director of public relations. start anniversary celebration

Official opening of research center also marks past and future progress

OPENING HIGHLIGHTS of "Harvest­ McCaffrey introduced a group of longest- Luncheon speakers were Dwight H. er's 100 Years in Chicago" observance service employes now on the active Green, governor of Illinois; Martin H. were a civic luncheon given by the rolls in the Company's Chicago opera­ Kennelly, mayor of Chicago; Fowler Company; a preview visit by the luncheon tions, and another group of the oldest McCormick, chairman of the Board of guests to the Company's historical and employes in Chicago now retired on Directors, International Harvester Com­ industrial exhibit on the lake front; a Harvester pensions. pany, and Mrs. Anita McCormick Blaine, special one-hour broadcast from Chicago Mr. McCaffrey also introduced repre­ whom Mr. McCaffrey introduced as "the of the "Harvest of Stars" Sunday radio sentatives of three other Chicago busi­ only living child of the genius (Cyrus program, and an official opening of the nesses "which, like our own, are this Hall McCormick) who made this Com­ Company's new Manufacturing Research year observing their 100th anniversaries pany possible." Building in Chicago, attended by 150 in Chicago." The firms and their repre­ representatives of newspapers, technical sentatives were: Chicago Title & Trust and trade publications, and farm journals. Company, represented by its president, "THE THOUSANDS OF MEN and The luncheon, with more than 1,000 Holman D. Pettibone; Chicago Tribune, women who now make up the Interna­ civic, professional, spiritual, and business represented by its financial editor, tional Harvester organization," Governor leaders of the Chicago area as guests, Thomas Furlong, and the M. W. Powell Green said, "have every reason to be was held on October 17 in the Grand Company, represented by its president, proud of the rich heritage left to them by Ballroom of the Hotel Stevens at noon, M. W. Powell. Warren W. Brown, vice Cyrus Hall McCormick and the men who after which the guests were taken by president, the Monon Railroad, was also succeeded him in the direction of this buses to the exhibit. introduced, as the Monon also is celebrat­ Company. They may well be proud not John L. McCaffrey, president of the ing its 100th year. "The Monon hadn't only of what the Company has accom­ Company, presided at the luncheon. reached Chicago in 1847," Mr. McCaffrey plished in years past, but of what it is After his welcoming remarks, Mr. remarked, "but it was on its way." accomplishing today through the tre-

ANITA MCCORMICK BLAINE Daughter of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the first successful reaper.

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aVIC LUNCHEON OP "HARVESTER'S 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO" 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO mendous expansion of its facilities, and fire of 1871, and of the fresh start her tance. The Chicago area still has an through the addition of new products to father made in "manufacturing and abundance of raw material. It has able meet the changing needs of our modern selling his precious reaper," after the workers. And it is the nation's greatest society. The Company has demonstrated fire had swept away his factory. transportation center. that it has retained the pioneering spirit "In the new home," she said, "his "Cyrus Hall McCormick was not upon which it was founded." office was in the room just beyond the only a great inventor. He was a great Mayor Kennelly voiced "the congratu­ first front door. I recall all the people pioneer in many fields, among them the lations of the city to this great organiza­ coming and going, receiving directions field of business policy. After his death tion" and reminded the luncheon audience from him—his whole family pressed into his wife, Nettie Fowler McCormick, his that the Harvester Company is nearly as willing and glad service—my mother, sons, Cyrus and Harold, together with old as the city of Chicago itself and has, most of all, and even his little girl that great and simple man, Alexander therefore, served the city almost from writing letters for him." Legge, and all the associates of the firms its beginning. He contrasted the 33 In responding for the Company, Fowler which were joined with the McCormick employes of the McCormick reaper McCormick, grandson of the inventor company in 1902—all these people de­ factory of 100 years ago with the 90,000 and nephew of Mrs. Blaine, spoke of the voted their lives to carrying forward the International Harvester employes in the wisdom of his grandfather's selection of work he started, that of keeping the United States today—30,000 of them in Chicago for his factory 100 years ago. Company financially sound, humanly the Chicago area. "The decision was sound," he said. "It warm, and alertly progressive. The talk by Mrs. Blaine consisted still is sound. Chicago was a good place "We who are privileged to carry on largely of reminiscences of her childhood in which to learn to manufacture. Chicago their work pledge ourselves anew today and her associations with her father, the still is a good place to manufacture. to give our efforts to the end that we and inventor of the reaper, who built his "Everything which made Chicago a our Company may continue to be good factory in Chicago in 1847. She told of desirable location at that time has con­ citizens of this great state and this great life in their new home after the Chicago tinued and has been magnified in impor­ city, and to the end that our Company shall continue to be operated fairly, honestly, and efficiently in the equal interests of its stockholders, its employes, and its customers." Each guest at the luncheon received a handsome, color-illustrated, 64-page brochure entitled "Roots in Chicago— One Hundred Years Deep." The book told the story of Cyrus Hall McCormick, of the organization he founded, and of its growth with the city of Chicago and with the nation.

EXCEPT for the tens of thousands who thronged the lake front exposition grounds each day, the largest single gathering of the anniversary observance

AMONG THE LUNCHEON SPEAKERS (aioVe~) WCtC Dwight H. Green (/), governor of Illinois, and Fowler McCormick (center), chairman of the Board of Directors, International Harvester Company. At Mr. McCormick's left: the Hon. Charles G. Dawes, former vice president of the United States, and present chairman of the board of directors. City National Bank & Trust Company, Chicago.

FEATURED ON THE SPECIAL "Harvest of Stars" Sunday radio program (Jrom left); Walter Huston, Bidu Sayao, James Melton, and Fowler McCormick. Ijr

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was the audience of 17,000 Chicago Brazilian soprano of the Metropolitan included in the script, and contained his employes of the Company and their Opera, were guest stars. Another feature statement that "without McCormick's families who attended the special one- was a talk by Fowler McCormick. invention I feel the North could not have hour "Harvest of Stars" Sunday broad­ Mr. Huston was the narrator in a won and the Union would have been cast, in the Chicago Stadium, October 19. dramatization of the parallel growth of dismembered." The Chicago Fire of The program was broadcast on the full International Harvester and the city of 1871 and its destruction of the McCor­ NBC network and by Chicago stations Chicago and of what both have meant mick factory formed another high point WMAQ, WBBM, WGN, and WJJD. in the development of the nation. The of the story, as did McCormick's success­ In addition to James Melton and Dr. war between the states formed a part of ful struggle to rebuild and start anew. Frank Black, regular artists on the the story, for the McCormick reaper Fowler McCormick, in his talk to the program, and the International Har­ proved a decisive factor in that struggle, radio audience, briefly outlined the poli­ vester orchestra and mixed chorus, Walter in that it released men from the farms cies and practices of International Har­ Huston, distinguished actor of stage, for the Union forces. The role of the vester and of its predecessor companies radio, and screen, and Bidu Sayao, then Secretary of War Stanton was as keystones of the organization's 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO development during a hundred years. "The relationship between a corpora­ stockholders continue to provide capital "Those who are acquainted with the tion and those with whom it is most which makes possible the healthy growth facts," Mr. McCormick said, "know that directly concerned is a two-way street. of the company over the years." business survival, even for a few years, "It produces goods or services which in an economy of free competition is the are of value to its customers and in exception and not the rule. They know return the customers provide the company IN OFFICIALLY opening its new that in our country a business cannot go with money with which to buy materials, Manufacturing Research Building, as a on living unless it makes and continues pay its employes for their work, and its part of the "100 Years in Chicago" to make contributions to its customers, stockholders for their capital. observance, the Company demonstrated employes, and stockholders. "The company provides jobs with that its program for continued progress "Think of any business enterprise with the best possible wages, hours, and has been undertaken on a major scale. which you are acquainted which has working conditions, and the employes in Fowler McCormick, in welcoming the been operating for as little as ten years return perform the work required to members of the press at the research and you will see that it is doing that— design, build, sell, and service the com­ center immediately before their all-day providing something of value to those pany's products. tour of the building, said that the who buy from it, to those who work for "The company safeguards the stock­ facilities there had been set up with two it, and to those who furnish the money holders' capital and provides them a main purposes in mind: (1) to improve to get it started or to keep it going. reasonable return on it, and in return the the quality of the Company's products; (2) to reduce the costs of those products and, hence, the prices for them to the customer. Mr. McCaffrey, president of the Com­ pany, in a talk to the guests at a luncheon in the building's cafeteria, further out­ lined the research program. "We consider the future a challenge," Mr. McCaffrey said, "One of the ways we intend to meet this challenge is with a new kind of manufacturing research. We do not believe, as many have said, that the frontier is closed. We have been pioneers throughout our corporate history. We expect to go on being pioneers. We think that the frontier today is a scientific region—a broad frontier open to all who have the courage to explore it. Our manufacturing research department is going to explore that frontier. We hope that it will blaze new trails." The research center is really a series of laboratories: metallurgical, welding, machining, induction heating, electrical, chemical, and paint. Each is supervised by a specialist. In a foundry area and pilot machine line, manufacturing processes will be analyzed and new methods developed. The foundry will be equipped to pour virtually any kind of metal. The labo­ ratories will measure the metal's machin- ability, utility, and durability. Equipment ranges from impact testing machines for measuring the strength of wooden boxes and paperboard containers AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE uscd in International Harvester's manufacturing research department to such elaborate apparatus as spectro­ metallurgical section. The microscope is used to study extremely fine structures of materials that are not revealed by light microscopes. Physicist in background is using a vacuum unit scopes, an electron microscope, and a as he prepares a sample for study with the microscope. 1,000,000-volt X-ray room.

10 TEN ACRES OF BIO TOPS and outdoot exhibits made up the "Harvester's 100 Years in Chicago" exposition.

A HUGE IH EMBLEM and fountain formed the centerpiece of the outdoor exhibit of tractors, trucks, and machines.

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ACROSS A SECTION of thc "100 Yeats in Chicago" out­ door exhibit (at right) looking toward Soldier Field.

LOOKING OVER A PART (below) of the outdoor exhibit from Soldier Field. The two-a-day variety show by Stage and radio stars took place in the tent at the left. Adler Planetarium can be seen in the background. INTUNATIOIUU.

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E. O. COGAN KEITH J. CADDY B. E. RIEGEL E. J. BAUER Manager of the Fiber Manager, Motor Truck Assistant Manager, Motor Truck Assistant Manager, Motor Truck Department Service Parts Department, Service Parts Department, Service Parts Department, Fiber and Twine Division Motor Truck Division Motor Truck Division Motor Truck Division

FIBBR AND TWINS further increases. The increase in through existing facilities of the activities involved in purchasing, service parts volume has naturally manufacturing unit. accounting, materials control, etc. DIVISION been accompanied by an increase in The decision to separate the pro­ E. J. BAUER also has been ap­ curement and distribution of motor An announcement by the problems of purchasing and pointed assistant manager, efl^ective prompt and economical distribution of truck service parts from the manufac­ November 1. Mr. Bauer was former­ NEIL LOYNACHAN, ture of motor trucks and components General Manager, F&TD service parts, to which are added the ly materials handling engineer at Fort difficulties experienced in recent years has been made only after long and Wayne Works. He will be respon­ E. O. COGAN has been appointed careful consideration and surveys of manager of the fiber department, fiber due to (he shortage of raw and sible for all activities involved in the finished materials. The same is true the problems involved. Studies were physical handling of service parts, and twine division, effective Novem­ made of the methods used by other ber 1. of the problems involved in the including receiving, storing, order quantity manufacture of heavy-duty companies, both within and without filling, packing, and shipping. Mr. Cogan entered the employ of motor trucks. the automotive industry, in attempt­ International Harvester Company of It is of vital importance that we ing to solve such problems. We Philippines in Manila on November KEITH J. CADDY. 1931, B.S. degree in give the closest possible attention to have every confidence that this change general engineering. University of 20, 1926. In March 1928 he was the production of motor trucks so as will result in not only improved appointed manager of Tacloban service in the distribution of service Illinois. Service—1936, draftsman, to improve our position in the indus­ plant engineering department. Farm- branch, and in 1932 was made man­ try. Likewise, it is of equal impor­ parts from Fort Wayne, but likewise ager of the Davao branch. On will permit our manufacturing organi­ all Works; 1939, assistant plant tance that we furnish prompt, eco­ engineer; 1940, head of planning January 1, 1935, he became manager of nomical, and satisfactory service to our zation to give their undivided atten­ the fiber department of the Philippine tion to the problems involved in the department; 1941, engineer, industrial customers in the delivery of service production of motor trucks and engineering and construction depart­ Company, and served in that capacity parts. Therefore, it has been decided until interned by the Japanese early components. ment. General Offices, Chicago; 1942, to segregate what has formerly been acting plant engineer. Fort Wayne in 1942. Upon his release in 1945 he known as the Fort Wayne parts joined the General Offices, Chicago, We are pleased to announce the Works; 1943, plant engineer; and, department from the manufacturing appointments of the following indi­ June 1947, special assignment, chair­ and was elected vice president and works and establish it as a separate assistant general manager of thc viduals who will be responsible for man, service parts survey committee, unit of the motor truck division. the administration, at Fort Wayne, MTD, General Offices. Philippine Company. The change became effective Novem­ The many years Mr. Cogan has of the motor truck service parts For five years prior to his IH service, ber 1, 1947, and the new unit will be department: from 1931 to 1936, Mr. Caddy was spent in the fiber business well qualify known as the motor truck service him for his new position. KEITH J. CADDY has been ap­ employed by the State of Illinois, parts department. division of highways, as an engineer In this department will be consoli­ pointed manager, effective November 3, reporting directly to the general on highway construction and main­ dated all of the motor truck division's tenance. MOTOR TRUCK DIVISION activities on service parts (both manager of the motor truck division. foreign and domestic), except engi­ Mr. Caddy was formerly plant engi­ B. E. RIEGEL. Sctvicc—1929, time­ An Announcement by neer at Fort Wayne Works, but more neering and sales. 'The new unit, recently has been serving as head of a keeper, Springfield Works; 1930, W. C. SCHUMACHER, however, will be expected to co­ assistant chief timekeeper; 1931, chief General Manager, MTD special survey committee studying the ordinate engineering and sales phases problems involved in the procurement timekeeper; 1937, supervisor of time­ IN the past, the administration, pro­ of service parts with its direct control keeping and pay roll; 1945, assistant curement, and distribution of motor and distribution of motor truck serv­ of purchasing, scheduling, storing, ice parts. works auditor; and, July 1947, truck service parts has been central­ shipping, and billing of service parts. special assignment, motor truck ized at Fort Wayne Works, and has The motor truck service parts depart­ B. E. RIEGEL has been appointed service parts survey, MTD, General been combined for administrative ment will be entirely separate admin­ assistant manager, effective Novem­ Offices, Chicago. purposes with the manufacture of istratively from the manufacturing ber 1. He was formerly assistant heavy-duty motor trucks. works, except for industrial relations, auditor at Springfield Works, and has E. J. BAUER. Graduate, Willis Business In recent years we have enjoyed a maintenance, and certain other serv­ had long experience in connection University, Springfield, Ohio. Serv­ considerable increase in service parts ices which can be handled more with office and clerical routines. He ice—1920, timekeeper, Springfield volume, and we are planning for economically or be better co-ordinated will be directly responsible for all Works; 1926, stock clerk, production ''i: •

W. B. SHIDELER COLEMAN L. GRIGGS WALTER H. MARTIN HAROLD F. CLAUS Assistant Auditor, Works Auditor, Supervisor of Production, Supervisor of Distribution, Springfield Works, MTD Wisconsin Steel Coal Mines, SD Consumer Relations Department Consumer Relations Department

department; 1928, assistant foreman, organization in the United States and C O NSU ME K RELATIONS parts department; May 1930, foreman, in the Philippine Islands. parts department; August 1930, Fort We bespeak from all the continued DEPARTMENT Wayne Works; 1943, general foreman, support and cooperation which Mr. spare parts department; 1946, mate­ Hodges will require in the execution Announcements by rials handling engineer; and, July of his duties. M. F. PECKELS, 1947, special assignment, service parts Manager, j survey committee, M'TD, General Consumer Relations Department • j. Offices, Chicago. An announcement by JOHN R. LESTER, THREE new sections have been Manager, formed and are now in operation in International Harvester Company, the consumer relations department. An announcement by Argentina I am pleased to announce the follow­ G. D. WADE, ing appointments: Divisional Comptroller, MTD ^^E are pleased to announce that E. A. ALVIGINI, formerly super­ WALTER H. MARTIN, supervisor W. B. SHIDELER, formerly chief of visor of consumer relations, Bahia of production. budgets and statistics at Indianapolis Blanca branch, has been appointed "The production section is respon- Works, has been appointed assistant assistant branch manager, at that ible for the department's printing and auditor, Springfield Works, effective JOHN M. HANNON branch, effective November 1. engraving, still photography, and Supervisor of November 1. Mr. Alvigini, through past experi­ art work. Mr. Shideler's experience and Displays and Exhibits, ence, is well suited for his present HAROLD F. CLAUS, supervisor of Consumer Relations Department ability fully qualify him to handle his position, and we ask that you con­ distribution. increased responsibilities. We solicit tinue to grant him the same coopera­ The distribution section is respon­ your cooperation with him in his new tion that you have favored him with sible for thedistribution and inventory assignment. in the past. of the end products of this department and halftones, and printing of produced at the Harvester Press, in­ literature at Harvester Press; 1939, w. B. SHIDELER. Setvicc—April 1938, cluding advertising, promotional, and assistant office manager; 1942-46, inspector, Indianapolis Works; De­ technical printed matter; Company military service, attaining rank of cember 1938, billing clerk; 1939, STEEL DIVISION magazines, and merchandising ma­ major. Air Corps Reserves; April accounting clerk; 1941, cost account­ terial purchased from outside vendors. 1946, resumed IH service, consumer ing clerk, product costs; 1943, special An announcement by relations department. cost, war contracts; January 1945, JOHN M. HANNON, supervisor of J. B. PARKER, displays and exhibits. JOHN M. HANNON. 1923, B.S. degree chief billing clerk; May 1945, war Divisional Comptroller, SD contract terminations; 1946, special All planning and supervision in in agriculture. University of Illinois. assignment, MTD, General Offices, AFTER 27 years of service at the connection with Company partici­ Service—1923, short course crew, Chicago; and, February 1947, chief of Wisconsin Steel Coal Mines, Benham, pation in fairs, shows, displays, and agricultural extension department, budgets and statistics. Kentucky, J. C. Ballard, formerly exhibits are the responsibility of this General Offices, Chicago; 1930, assist­ works auditor, has asked to be section. (Announced November 1.) ant manager of short course crew; relieved of his responsibilities for 1933, leave of absence, in charge of personal reasons, ana has joined the WALTER H. MARTIN. SetvicC 1918, employe gardens for prominent steel artist, agricultural extension depart­ company; January 1934, advertising FOREIGN OPERATIONS accounting staff at Memphis Works under R. J. Wrath. We extend to ment. General Offices, Chicago; 1933, man, Indianapolis, Indiana, g.l. Mr. Ballard our full appreciation for photographer, advertising department branch; 1939, sales promotion; and, An Announcement by his many years of excellent service (subsequently designated consumer 1942, exhibits, consumer relations H. A. DAVIES, at Benham, and our best wishes in relations department); 1934, Har­ department. General Offices. General Manager, his new work at Memphis. vester Press; 1938, artist, consumer International Harvester Maquinas, S.A. relations department. General Offices; Effective November 1, the pro­ COLEMAN L. GRIGGS has been and, 1943, assistant art director. duction and distribution of motion ^VE take special pleasure in announc­ appointed works auditor at the pictures and slide films have been ing that H. M. HODGES, JR., has Wisconsin Steel Coal Mines, effective HAROLD F. CLAUS. Setvicc—1924, assigned to the Company magazine been appointed assistant manager of October 1. Mr. Griggs has been handling of inquiries for literature, section, consumer relations depart­ the Sao Paulo, Brazil, branch. Inter­ assistant works auditor at that advertising department (subsequently ment, under the direction of HAL C. national Harvester Maquinas, S. A., location for the last several years, and designated consumer relations depart­ WRIGHT, supervisor of Company effective November 1. is well qualified for the responsi­ ment), General Offices, Chicago; 1925, magazines. Mr. Wright had charge Mr. Hodges has for more than a bilities of his new position. handling of mailing, direct mail of motion picture and slide film pro­ year held the position of assistant to campaign material for farm equipment duction for several years prior to the manager of that branch. During COLEMAN L. GRIGGS. Sctvice—April dealers; 1927, same duties, but for January 1945, and is qualified by that time he has come to know our 1923, scrip writer, Wisconsin Steel motor truck dealers; 1929, handling experience and Company background organization, and we are sure he is in Coal Mines; July 1923, assistant of all distribution of advertising to assume these new duties. a position to carry out his increased shipper; August 1923, pay roll clerk; material to branch and dealer organ­ Also effective November 1, responsibilities with full success. 1928, chief pay roll clerk; 1931, izations; 1930, in charge of distribu­ WALTER F. JONES, formerly editor Apart from his experience in Brazil, cashier; 1934, storekeeper; and, 1942, tion of all direct mail advertising; of works magazines, has been ap­ Mr. Hodges has served the Harvester assistant works auditor. 1937, in charge of purchasing of cuts pointed assistant supervisor. Com- cooperation in further improving the blockman, Boston, Massachusetts, magazines now under his supervision. m.t.; 1942, g.l.; 1943, retail m.t. manager. New York City; and, 1946, GERALD HURLEY. 1940, Bachclor of Syracuse, New York. Philosophy degree in journalism, Marquette University. Service—1941, J. F. ADAMS, formerly assistant works magazines staff. General Offices, manager, Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicago; December 1941—January motor truck branch, has been ap­ 1946, military service; January 1946, pointed manager at the Nashville, resumed IH service; and, October 1946, •Tennessee, motor truck branch, assistant editor, works magazines. effective October 15. Service—1936, retail m.t. salesman, Charlotte, North Carolina; 1938, wholesale m.t. salesman; 1940, retail m.t. manager; 1944, store manager; and, 1945, assistant branch manager. Branch Changes E. E. RICHARDSON, formerly on a special assignment at the Central CHARLES E. ARMACOST School for Harvester Personnel, WALTER F. JONES Chicago, has been appointed assistant UNITED ST ATES SALES manager, Omaha, Nebraska, general Assistant Supervisor, line branch, effective October 6. Company Magazines, Consumer Relations Department H.J. WASHBURN, formerly assistant Service—1939, collector, Daven­ manager, Toledo, Ohio, general line port, Iowa, branch; 1942, blockman; branch, has been promoted to branch and. May 1947, education and manager, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, training. General Offices, Chicago. general line, effective October 1. Service—1922, clerk, office, Mil­ waukee, Wisconsin; 1925, advertising CREDIT AND COLLECTION man; March 1927, salesman; Novem­ ber 1927, blockman; 1930, salesman, B. W. MCDONALD, formerly assist­ Davenport, Iowa; 1932, collector, ant credit manager, Omaha, Nebraska, Peoria, Illinois; February 1934, assist­ has been appointed credit manager, ant credit manager, Davenport; July Sioux Falls, South Dakota, effective 1934, collector, Peoria; November October 1. 1934, blockman, Davenport; 1937, Service—1937, collector. Council assistant branch manager, Madison, Bluffs, Iowa; 1940, special traveler, CARL E. DUNPHY Wisconsin; 1941, Cleveland, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; March 1941, and, 1946, Toledo, Ohio, g.l. salesman; June 1941, special traveler; G. DON LONG, formerly sales pro­ September 1941, collector; November motion man, Salina, Kansas, branch, 1941, credit man; 1942-46, military has been appointed assistant branch service; and, January 1946, assistant manager at Sweetwater, Texas, effec­ credit manager, Omaha. tive October 3. N. J. MILLER, formerly credit man­ Service — June 1937, collector, ager, Chicago motor truck branch, GERALD HURLEY Wichita, Kansas; September 1937, has been transferred to Quincy, Editor, Works Magazines, St. Joseph, Missouri; 1941, credit Illinois, in the same capacity, effective Consumer Relations Department man, Hutchinson, Kansas; 1942, block October 16. collector; January 1943, combination blockman; November 1943, Wichita; M. C. ANDERSON, formerly credit April 1, 1944, Kansas City, Missouri; manager, Cleveland, Ohio, branch, pany magazines. Because of his April 12, 1944—March 1, 1946, has been transferred to the Chicago training and his long experience in military service; March 1946, com­ motor truck branch in the same manufacturing, industrial relations, bination blockman, Salina, Kansas; capacity, effective November 1. and editorial fields, Mr. Jones is well and, July 1946, sales promotion man. R. R. KIRKMAN, formerly assistant fitted for his new responsibilities. K. E. NICKLE, formerly sales pro­ credit manager, Philadelphia, Penn­ ORSON E. DYER The organization's continued co­ motion man, Sioux City, Iowa, has sylvania, has been appointed credit operation with Mr. Wright and been appointed assistant manager at manager at Cleveland, Ohio, effective Mr. Jones will be deeply appreciated October 14. that branch, effective October 6. March 1942, dairy equipment sales­ WALTER F. JONES. Setvice—1934, Service—1934, clerk, Sioux City, Service—1939, collector, Philadel­ man; August 1942, helper; 1945, inspection department, McCormick Iowa, branch; 1937, salesman; 1940, phia, Pennsylvania; 1942, assistant clerk, parts accounting; and, February Works; 1936, production clerk, forge blockman, g.l.; September 1942, credit manager; July 1945—April 1947, advance clerk. shop; 1937, stock chaser; 1938, pro­ machine operator; December 1942, 1946, temporarily credit manager, in duction control department; 1940, parts helper, g.l.; 1943, combination absence, during military service, of CARL E. DUNPHY, formerly block- expediter, production department; blockman; and, 1945, sales promotion regular credit manager; and, April man, Richmond, Virginia, branch, June 1942, associate editor, works man. 1946, resumed duties of assistant retired on pension November 17, after credit manager. magazines. General Offices, Chicago; C. M. CHRISTENSEN, formerly sales almost 31 years of service. November 1942, assistant editor, promotion man, Aberdeen, South Service—1917, salesman, Peoria, works magazines; and, 1945, editor, Dakota, has been appointed assistant Illinois; 1918, blockman; May 1920, works magazines. branch manager at Grand Forks, salesman, American Seeding Machine North Dakota, effective October 6. Company, Richmond, Virginia; July Service—1940, salesman, Aberdeen, Retirements 1920, general traveler, IH General An announcement by South Dakota, branch; 1942, parts Offices, Chicago; November 1920, HAL C. WRIGHT, helper, g.l.; July 1943, m.t.; Septem­ blockman, Richmond, Virginia, Supervisor, Company Magazines, ber 1943, blockman; and, April 1947, branch; 1927, salesman; January 1928, Consumer Relations Department sales promotion man. blockman; December 1928, salesman; Rmports and announc9m»ntt of rtfire' 1932, m.t. salesman; July 1933, retail GERALD HURLEY has been R. W. MAXWELL, formerly retail mtnttf and pictur^Sf apptar in alpha' manager; and, November 1933, block- appointed editor of works magazines, motor truck manager, Syracuse, btfieal orc/*r o( latt nam»s. man. effective November 1. New York, motor truck branch, has Mr. Hurley has been assistant been appointed assistant manager, CHARLES E. ARMACOST, formerly ORSON E. DYER, formerly of the editor since October 1, 1946, and has Buffalo, New York, motor truck of the Baltimore, Maryland, general Saginaw, Michigan, branch, retired been a member of the works maga­ branch, effective October 7. line branch, retired on pension on pension September 1, after almost zines staff since before World War II. Service—1926, credit department November 1, after almost 30 years of 27 years of service. His training and experience fully office, Columbus, Ohio; 1934, col­ service. Service—1920, helper, warehouse, qualify him for the responsibilities lector; 1936, assistant credit manager, Service—1918, salesman, Baltimore Saginaw, Michigan; 1923, foreman; now assigned to him. I am sure the Cleveland, Ohio, m.t.; 1937, Pitts­ Maryland, g.l.; 1922, blockman October 1928, stockman; December organization will extend him full burgh, Pennsylvania, m.t.; 1940, 1923, salesman; February 1942, helper 1928, foreman; and, 1944, senior clerk. CLETUS R. FROBES RUSSELL A. HAMRICK JOSEPH L. HEMP H. P. HOWELL

JULIA M. KNUDSON WALTER Mc COWAN PAUL W. PROVINCE MAURICE A. STANTON

CLETUS R. FROBES, formerly years he has been associated with branch manager, Quincy, Illinois, education and training, where he retired on pension December 5, after made many valuable contributions to more than 25 years of service. the establishment and administration Service—January 1922, salesman, of Harvester's educational program. g.l., Quincy, Illinois; June 1922, Mr. Howell's host of friends in the blockman, g.l.; 1923, East St. Louis, Company join in wishing him many Illinois; 1924, assistant branch man­ years of happiness in his retirement. ager, Dubuque, Iowa; 1926, Phila­ Service—February 1917, salesman, delphia, Pennsylvania, m.t.; 1933, g.l., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, branch; branch manager, Albany, New York; May 1917, special wagon and spreader 1939, Indianapolis, Indiana; 1942, salesman; December 1917, blockman; Parkersburg, West Virginia; and, 1919, assistant to the branch manager, 1943, Quincy, Illinois. Rockford, Illinois; 1920, assistant RUSSELL A. HAMRICK, formerly branch manager; 1927, branch man­ of the San Francisco motor truck ager; 1932, Fort Wayne, Indiana; branch, retired on pension August 1, 1935, Charlotte, North Carolina; after almost 31 years of service. 1938, supervisor of employe training EMIL F. STUBENRAUCH AUGUST M. WEILANDT Service—1916, salesman, m.t.. Salt and dealer improvement, sales depart­ Lake City, Utah, branch; 1928, retail ment. General Offices, Chicago; 1943, September 1, after more than 27 years EMIL F. STUBENRAUCH, formerly m.t. manager, San Francisco, Cali­ supervisor, education and training, of service starting in 1920. a clerk in the consumer relations fornia; 1932, salesman, m.t.; 1935, consumer relations department; 1946, department. General Offices, Chicago, retail m.t. manager; and, 1946, sales­ director. Central School for Harvester PAUL W. PROVINCE, formerly retired on pension on July 1, after man, m.t. Personnel, Chicago; and, 1947, dean blockman, Memphis, Tennessee, more than 47 years of service. of school. general line branch, retired on pension JOSEPH L. HEMP, formerly of the Service—1900, clerk, repairs de­ ROSE HURM, formerly secretary to October 23, after almost 39 years of partment, Dcering Works; 1904, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, branch, service. retired on pension November 1, after the vice president, farm implement order and distribution department. division, has retired after almost Service—1909, salesman, St. Louis, General Offices, Chicago; and, 1941, more than 27 years of service. Missouri, for Parlin & Orendorff Service—1920, mechanic, service 30 years of service. consumer relations department, in Service—1918, stenographer, en­ Company; 1919, Memphis, Tennessee, charge of shipping — instruction department, Harrisburg, Pennsylva­ IH branch; and, 1920, blockman. nia; 1926, foreman, m.t.; 1929,helper; gineering department. General Offices, manuals and parts catalogs. Chicago; 1925, secretary, executive 1931, mechanic, service station; and, MAURICE A. STANTON, formerly AUGUST M. WEILANDT, formerly 1935, janitor. department; 1942, engineering depart­ ment; and, 1944, secretary to the branch manager, Albany, New York, of the Mankato, Minnesota, branch, vice president, farm implement motor truck, retired on pension retired on pension October 15, after An Annoucement by August 20, after almost 35 years of 24 years of service. D. B. McCALL, division. service. Service—1922, warehouse helper, Manager of Sales Training, JULIA M. KNUDSON, formerly of Education and Training Service—1913, general salesman. Winona, Minnesota; 1932, Mankato, the sales operation research depart­ Auburn, New York; 1915, motor H. P. HOWELL, formerly dean of ment. General Offices, Chicago, Minnesota; 1942-47, for alternating the Central School for Harvester retired on pension December 1, after truck salesman; 1922, assistant branch periods of varying lengths, helper, Personnel, has retired on pension, almost 29 years of service. She manager; and, 1925, branch manager, warehouse and parts department, terminating almost 31 years of loyal started as a stenographer in the Albany, New York, m.t. respectively. service to the Harvester Company. Canadian collections department, in During those years, in addition to 1919, and when that function was PUBLISHED BY being branch manager at Rockford, transferred to Canada, in 1944, she Illinois; Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was transferred to the sales operation Charlotte, North Carolina, Mr. research department. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY WALTER McCOWAN, formerly a Howell occupied responsible positions clerk in the mailroom. General in the sales department in the General Offices, Chicago, retired on pension Offices, Chicago. In the last several 180 NORTH MICHIGAN AVE. CHICAGO 1, ILLINOIS

\ "HARVESTER'S 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO" Can bc measured by these exhibits: replicas of Cyrus Hall McCormick's first reaper factory in Chicago and its neighbor, old Fort Dearborn, and the millionth Farmall tractor.

IS' 1 00 YEARS IN CHICAGO

tTREBT SCENES OF the Chicago of 1847 were the first exhibits the thousands of visitors saw. Note that the band leader has distinguished himself by wearing a coat of a color different from that of the others.

14 see show^ outdoors and under

Exposition portrays growth

of agriculture and industry;

radio, stage stars entertain

ENTERING thc stTcets of Chicago of 100 years ago. numerous radio programs; Gloria Van, contralto blues-singer, who has appeared with outstanding dance bands; the "Royal Rockets," whirlwind roller skat­ THE HALF-MILLION visitors to "Har­ stage acts, and to other special program ing act; Betty Lee, xylophone artist; vester's 100 Years in Chicago" exposition features. The show tent, called the Marvin Himmel, the original make- saw in vivid panorama over a 10-acre Anniversary Theatre, had a seating believe pantomimist, and the "Four site the extent to which an industry can capacity of 5,500 which, with the excep­ Step Brothers," nationally outstanding develop under the American system of tion of two rainy days, drew overflow tap-dance quartet. free enterprise. International Harvester audiences at every performance. Other attractions of an entertainment operations and its products and services or instructional nature were motion were spread out before them in brilliant picture shows in the Soldier Field portrayal of the IH story—the organiza­ FEATURED IN THE performances- stadium theatre; a daily "Soil Conserva­ tion's modest beginnings; its expansion each of which was broadcast from the tion Presentation," by Tom Kelly, car­ through a century; its contributions to stage over station WBBM, Chicago— toonist-lecturer; a daily "Frozen Foods the growth of a city and a nation, and its were a radio orchestra; John Harrington, Demonstration," by Irma Harding, Inter­ present world-wide importance. popular WBBM announcer; Billy Leach, national Harvester home economist; 4-H The exposition, free to the public singer, arranger, and composer; the Club and Future Farmer events, and throughout, was conducted partly in a "King's Jesters," musical trio that broadcasts of interviews with Company large outdoor area where hundreds of gained national prominence with Paul representatives and notable visitors. tractors, machines, and motor trucks Whiteman; "Cinderella and Her Fellas," The exposition as a whole was so were on display, and partly within four musical aggregation; Cliff Johnson, popu­ arranged that visitors began their tour circus-size tents, the largest of which lar radio master of ceremonies; Jack on reproduced streets of the Chicago of was devoted to a two-a-day (and some­ Searle, baritone of thc Crosby-Como- 1847, a set located out of doors immedi­ times three-a-day) show of radio and Sinatra type; Louise King, singing star of ately beyond the towering IH pylon that

15 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO

marked the entrance gate to the grounds. At the end of the old Chicago streets a scenorama of the original McCormick FOWLER MCCORMICK, chairman of the Board of Directors, International Harvester, reaper factory in Chicago came into view. welcomed Mayor Kennelly immediately following the formal opening of the At the entrance to the first tent, exposition. Included in the group that made a preview tour of the show are (from left): Mrs. Anita McCormick Blaine, daughter of Cyrus Hall McCormick, devoted to telling the history of the inventor of the first successful reaper; Chauncey McCormick, member of the IH reaper and the early Chicago in which Board of Directors; Mayor Kennelly; Fowler McCormick, and John L. McCaffrey, it figured so tellingly, each visitor was president. International Harvester Company. handed a pocket-size, illustrated booklet containing the story of the reaper and the Harvester organization to take home as a souvenir of the exposition. The historical exhibit itself included scenes of the McCormick farm in Vir­ ginia, where Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the reaper 16 years before com­ ing to Chicago; paintings and maps depicting the development of the prairie states in the wake of the reaper; working miniature models of the first and subse­ quent reapers and binders; a pictorial map of early Chicago; a display showing the basic parts of the first reaper and their operation; original handbills, post­ ers, and newspaper advertisements used by thc inventor in the promotion of his reaper business; a display of scores of the original certificates and medals awarded to Cyrus Hall McCormick in this and other countries, in recognition of his great contribution to agriculture; and miniature headers, corn binders, and other implements manufactured early in the McCormick company's history.

AS THE CROWDS passed into the second tent they saw these words: "In this tent is International Har­ vester's Chicago Story, that began with thc 1847 reaper plant of Cyrus Hall McCormick on the banks of the Chicago River, a plant that grew into the vast operations that are inseparably linked with Chicago's 'I Will' spirit." The exhibits in this tent showed International Harvester's Chicago area operations by means of actual manufac­ turing processes, by murals, by sceno- ramas, and by some of the products of the Chicago IH plants. Visitors saw the principal exhibits in the following order: ( 1 ) PRODUCTION OF IRON from raw material and thc process of converting molten iron into steel, copied from WHEN THE THOUSANDS of visitots ahead of them filled the tents and grounds to operations at the Company's Wisconsin capacity, the crowds lined up for blocks waiting for admittance to the exhibit. Steel Works, in Chicago.

16 THE CROWDS OVERFLOWED the 5,500 Seating capacity of the Anniversary Theatre at nearly all the two-a-day (and sometimes three-a-day) shows by radio and stage performers. Two rainy days brought the only exceptions to the rule of a packed tent.

( 2 ) A MACHINE FROM thc Company's parts used in products of other Interna­ device—and a viscosimeter determining McCormick Works, Chicago, testing the tional Harvester factories. viscosity of oil, and a strain gauge for knotter on hay baling machines for its ( 5 ) AN EXHIBIT REPRESENTING TRAC­ evaluating stresses in machine parts while accuracy in tying sufficiently strong TOR WORKS, Chicago, showing a flash-type, they are in operation. knots; and in the background lighted water-cooled welder in action—a high­ ( 7 ) Central attraction in this display color murals of other McCormick Works speed method of joining two pieces of was the International TD-24 GIANT operations and of the plant's products at metal with a weld as strong as the parts CRAWLER TRACTOR—thc most powctful in work on the nation's farms. themselves. Colored murals, with back­ existence, with 180 horsepower, a prod­ ( 3 ) THE STORY OF BINDER AND BALER ground lighting, showed International uct of the Company's Melrose Park TWINE from plant to fiber, from fiber to crawler tractors at work in many indus­ Works, Chicago area, in a bulldozing twine, and from factory to field, with a tries—in cities, on highways, in oil fields, operation. Murals depicted some of thc machine from the McCormick Twine in mines, and on farms. operations of machines produced by more Mills, Chicago, producing the twine. A ( 6 ) DEPICTION OF numerous activities than 100 manufacturers and powered by revolving global map of the world at the Company's new Manufacturing International engines. showed the sources of the fiber—Mexico, Research center in Chicago—materials (8) A MURAL-TOUR of the Chicago the Philippines, Africa, Australia, and handling studies; investigations for im­ International motor truck branch and South America. proved methods of welding and forging; three Chicago motor truck sales and ( 4 ) SOME OF THE OPERATIONS of WcSt studies in metallurgy, mechanical engi­ service stations, highlighted by Green Pullman Works, Chicago, in turning out neering, and malleable conversion. An Diamond and Blue Diamond engines that magnetos, bearings, nuts, bolts, chains, action display demonstrated a profi- power many classifications of Interna­ rivets, carburetors, and other collateral lometcr—a surface roughness measuring tional motor trucks.

17 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO

C 9 ) The story of HARVESTER'S EDUCA­ WATCHING A balct and binder twine-making machine in action. Sisal fiber went into the machine, ran through a series of processing operations, TION AND TRAINING program, open to all and emerged woven into twine. Then the twine was rolled into balls. IH employes, dealers, and distributors, in this and other countries, with emphasis on the Central School, in Chicago, and the training in sales management and manufacturing operations. (10) The functions of HARVESTER PRESS, the Company's big printing plant in Chicago. Scenoramas showed the plant itself and took the onlooker into the composing room, bindery, pressroom, and mailing department, where printed matter—Company magazines, catalogs, booklets, and other mailing pieces—goes to Company stockholders, employes, dealers, distributors, and customers. Thc exhibit showed that an average of more than 236,000,000 individual pieces of printed material are produced in thc plant each year.

(11) International Harvester's PLACE IN CHICAGO, and the interrelationship between the city and the Company, vividly illustrated. Central piece of the exhibit told the visitors that "30,000 PART OF THE HISTORICAL display Harvester men and women (and their was this grain binder model, one families) are your neighbors in Chicago." of a series of miniatures that showed grain harvesting ma­ (12) A PATIO REST STATION, with COm- chinery developments through fortablc chairs and plenty of room for a full century of progress. visitors to relax before going to the next tent and outdoor exhibit. Passing into the third tent, the crowds moved down lanes on both sides of which THIS DISPLAY SHOWED a flash- type water-cooled welder in were exhibits showing the "Growth of operation—a spectacular high­ Agriculture—the broad base on which speed method of joining two thc American economy is founded." pieces of metal with a weld as strong as the parts themselves. 1

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mSmJLmJM ^^H^Hf .fit" J M:?. Many of the displays were built around the theme of a century of progress in major farming activities: A display showing"100 YEARS OP CORN PICKING PROQRESS"began with an illustration of the hand-picking method and ended with a demonstration of ( 1 ) 100 YEARS OF GRAIN HARVESTING a McCormick-Dcering two-row corn picker mounted on a Farmall-H. PROGRESS—the original McCormick reaper on display and visualizations of the advances in grain harvesting methods from the reaper's time to the present. It was shown that 33}^ man-hours per acre were required when cutting with the first reaper and threshing with flails; 3 man-hours per acre with the horse-drawn binder and threshing machine; and }/i man-hour per acre with the modern one-man-operated self-propelled combine that cuts and threshes the grain as it moves down the field. (2 ) 100 YEARS OF COTTON PICKING PROGRESS—the mechanical cotton picker of recent advent, set in rows of actual cotton, with the machine's operating principles graphically set forth against a color background of hand pickers at work in cotton fields. (3 ) 100 YEARS OF HAY PRODUCTION PROGRESS—illustrating the advances in cutting, raking, and baling hay: cutting —from one acre a day with the scythe to 30 acres a day with modern tractor and mower; raking—from one acre a day with hand rake to 40 acres a day with tractor and rake; haling—one-man pick-up hay baler baling up to 60 tons a day as baler moves down the field, picking up hay or straw from windrows and dropping off completed bales. (4) 100 YEARS OF CORN PICKING PROGRESS—showing two-row corn picker mounted on a Farmall-H tractor in rows of ripened corn with operating parts in motion. Operated by one man, the machine picks, husks, and delivers ears of corn into wagon as machine moves down thc field. Advances: 80 bushels a day in 1847, by hand picking; 200 bushels a day in 1910, with horse-drawn pickers; 1,000 bushels a day in 1947, with modern equipment. ( 5 ) 100 YEARS OF SUGAR BEET PRO­ DUCTION PROGRESS—showing one of the most recent developments in farm ma­ chine history, the sugar beet harvester that, moving down the field, tops, lifts, This display of operations at the Company's WEST PULLMAN cleans, and loads beets in one operation, WORKS demonstrated machining operations on ball bearing harvesting 50 to 60 tons of beets a day in component parts for International Harvester products. fields averaging 20 tons to thc acre. Cutaway illustrations demonstrated the way thc machine does its work. 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO

( 6 ) 100 YEARS OF MILK PRODUCTION Agriculture" tent featured "The First built for agriculture and industry. There PROGRESS—emphasizing the importance Farmall Tractor," built in 1924, and were 275 of these heavy machinery of clean milk to health, and the part "The Millionth Farmall Tractor"; the products ranging from thc Farmall Cub International Harvester's mechanical Farmall system of farming that has made tractor to the giant trucks built for the milkers, milk coolers, cream separators, possible the complete mechanization of heavy hauling of the western state indus­ and motor trucks have in the sanitary and all farming operations; the Farmall Cub, tries and mountain highways, and to economical production and delivery of latest and smallest of the Farmalls, that powerful crawler tractors and products of dairy products from farm to dairy plant, brings all the advantages of mechanized other manufacturers—earth-moving and to bottling plants, to homes and other farming to thc farms of 40 acres and other industrial machines powered by points of consumption. A mechanical cow under; the modern IH dealer store, known International engines. that mooed and moved while being milked as the dealer's "Base of Operations"; thc The centerpiece of thc outdoor exhibit mechanically was a feature of the exhibit. 40th Anniversary of International Trucks, was a huge IH in block letters, in front ( 7 ) 100 YEARS OF FOOD PREPARATION showing the International Auto-Wagon of which played a colorful water foun­ PROGRESS—a revolving stage with two of 1907, built for farmers, and one of tain, encircled by 16 Farmall Cubs, each sets, one showing the lack of conveni­ today's Internationals in a complete line equipped with a different farm machine. ences for thc housewife of 100 years ago of trucks for every agricultural, commer­ Working parts of many of the exhibit's in preparing food for the table; the cial, and industrial use; a map, in colored machines were shown in operation. other, a kitchen furnished with all lights, showing thc extent of Interna­ Thc crowds in the outdoor show were modern labor-saving and time-saving tional Harvester operations in the United entertained at all times by music piped equipment, including an IH home freezer States, and a similar map showing "Inter­ to the grounds and relayed through a and an IH electric refrigerator. The national Harvester Around the World." loud-speaker system. At the lower end central theme: "Frozen foods retain The exit from thc "Growth of Agri­ of thc outdoor exhibit stood the Anni­ their color, flavor, and vitamin content culture" tent opened on the several-acre versary Theatre tent, where thc stage and provide fresh food the year 'round." outdoor exhibit of International Har­ shows and other program features were Other exhibits in the "Growth of vester tractors, machines, and trucks, conductecl day and night. ON THEIR WAY to the "Harvester's 100 Years in Chicago" exposition, this group of Illinois farm residents leaves a special train in the Illinois Central depot to walk over to the 10-acre display grounds on the lake front. They were among the 65,000 who jammed the exposition area on Illinois Day.

Quarter-million in out-of-city da Iega I i on> headed by governors

and other officials

AT CHICAGO'S UNION STATION, another trainload arrives for Illinois Day.

THE GREATEST MASS movcmcnt of civilians by the Harvester Company to its sales western states. To honor those groups since the close of World War II took branches and dealers within overnight eight "state days" were proclaimed at place in conjunction with "Harvester's travel distance, 152 special train move­ the exposition. On four of these occasions 100 Years in Chicago" exposition. ments from 16 states were organized in a — Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Approximately 250,000 residents from little over a month. Every major rail­ Indiana Days—special ceremonies were adjoining states and as distant as Texas road leading into Chicago ran special staged for the delegations. Governors and Georgia came to Chicago on one-day trains between October 18 and 31 to and other leading officials of the states railroad excursion trips, and by bus and accommodate thc huge numbers of out- took part in the ceremonies. car, to visit thc show. of-city visitors. Excursions came from Among the visitors who swarmed over The one-day trips were revivals of the such distant Company branch territories the 10-acre plot to view the 275 machines old-time excursions that many farmers as Omaha; Kansas City, Missouri; and valued at $500,000 were farm folk from made to the "big city" for a day of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, sightseeing after harvest time. Following The majority of persons making the Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, suggested formation of such excursions trips came from Illinois and nearby mid- Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky,

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WISCONSIN DAT recorded an attendance of 35,000.

WISCONSIN October 28, Wisconsin Day, 35,000; and had to come into the "Loop" in order October 29, Indiana Day, 60,000. to reach the exposition grounds. For If all the people who entered the those arriving on excursion trains, 141 exhibit during the nine largest days of double-decked buses were required to the show had entered in single file, the take them from the railroad stations to line would have been 151 miles long the exposition grounds. Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Alabama, on the basis of a 12-hour day, or 108 Following Illinois Day, when the Georgia, and Texas. Also attending hours. On Illinois Day alone the line exposition was too crowded for comfort, were employes of 44 of the Company's would have been 23 miles long. the Harvester Company used advertising sales branches in 17 middle western states. Incoming traffic on Illinois Day con­ space in Chicago newspapers to suggest Attendance highlights at the 17-day gested the highways leading into Chicago that Chicagoans plan to attend the show were: On October 21, Illinois from downstate from early morning exhibit on days other than those desig­ Day, the Company played host to 65,000 until noon. Downtown traffic was in a nated as special states days, or make their visitors; on October 23, Michigan Day, turmoil, too, because so many of the visits at night when the attendance from 50,000; October 27, Ohio Day, 25,000; visitors from out of the city thought they out of the city would be lighter.

22 -.^. .t. " ,i" Press and other media carry news of show fo all parts of country

"HARVESTER'S 100 Years in Chicago" proved to be one of the most widely publicized events of its kind in the IN THE STREETS OF the Chicago of 100 years ago (from left): H. W. Hartup, IH branch manager history of American industry. This held ILLINOIS at Springfield, Illinois; Dwight H. Green, true both in the heralding of the expo­ governor of Illinois; Fowler McCormick, and sition prior to its opening and during the M. F. Peckels, manager, IH consumer relations. course of its run. The press and other media began to sense the exhibit's broad significance weeks in advance of its opening. This was partly due to the facilities set up by the Harvester organization for making information about the exhibit and its historical background available. It was due also to the fact that Harvester, with its widely scattered factories, sales 100 YEARS IN CHICAGO

ON BEHALF OF THE International Harvester dealers of the state of Illinois, Governor Dwight H. branches, and dealers, has become an Green (right) presented a plaque in the shape of the state to Fowler McCormick. The integrated part of thousands of com­ presentation highlighted the Illinois Day program. Similar plaques were presented to Mr. McCormick on other state days, expressing the IH dealers' appreciation of the Harvester munities. For that reason the exposition Company's place in and service to their respective states. had a direct appeal in many localities. The advertising campaign for thc exhibit included liberal use of news­ papers, magazines, radio, billboards, car cards, show cards, auto window stickers, and direct mail. Nearly 400 spot radio announcements were made over Chicago's 15 radio stations, and Harvester branches and dealers in a 500-mile radius of Chicago were supplied with posters, show cards, post cards, and other material for announcements in their communities. In addition, two-color folders were dis­ tributed at information desks of railroad and bus stations, hotels, department stores, and other focal points.

DURING THE RUN of the exhibit the Harvester Company established complete pressroom facilities at the grounds. That these facilities were of great value to newspaper, magazine, and radio repre­ sentatives was shown by the number of them who registered at the pressroom, and by the number of news stories and articles appearing in papers and maga­ zines over a broad section of the country. As an example of how the exhibit caught the fancy of newspapers, the Indianapolis Star, on two successive days, carried the story of the exhibit on its front page — banner - headlining the departure of special trains carrying thousands of Indiana farmers to Chicago for Indiana Day at the exhibit. The paper also published more than a dozen pictures of the exposition and its crowds.

THE ANIMAL THAT MADE Wisconsin famous—the dairy cow—drew special attention from Governor Oscar Rennebohm of that state. The animated Holstein cow mooed and appeared to eat hay as the Wisconsin oflficial party looked over the mechanical milking machine that operated continually. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER From left: P. V. Moulder, executive vice president. International Harvester, W. R. Ploetz, IH Madison, Wisconsin, branch manager; Governor Renne­ WO RLD IS PUBLISHED BY INTERNATIONAL bohm; Harwood A. Page, Prairie du Sac, president. National Retail Farm Equipment Association; F. W.Jenks, vice president. International Harvester; HARVESTER ORGANIZATION . 180 NORTH J. W. Klingler, IH credit and collection manager, central region; F. W. MICHIGAN AVENUE . CHICAGO 1, ILLINOIS Duffce, chairman, department of agricultural engineering, University of Wisconsin; and M, F. Peckels, manager, IH consumer relations department. RALPH McQUINN, EDITOR . EVELYN MOULTON, ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR

24 THIS ACTION EXHIBIT dtew crowds day and night. It demonstrated the tests given the baler knotter for making sure of its accuracy in tying sufficiently strong knots.

THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL mechauical cotton picker was a principal attraction. The picker was shown in a setting of actual cotton rows. It formed a part of the exhibit that told the story of '' 100 Years of Cotton Picking Progress."

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THE ROYAL ROCKETS, TOllcr skatetS, thrilled audiences in the Anniversary Theatre, the big tent seating 5,500.

PRINCIPAL UNIT in the exhibit of the Company's Melrose Park Works opera­ tions was the International Diesel TD-24, the most powerful crawler tractor ever built. It has a 180-horsepower engine.

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26 THE EXTENT OF International Harvester operations was brilliantly demon­ strated by lights that flashed separate­ ly for each category shown at the sides of the world map. As a finale, all lights came on in their different colors.

THE RED LIGHTS ON the United States map showed locations of International Harvester factories. Spectators were able to flash any light chosen on the control board in front by selecting a factory city and pushing an indicated button. White lights showed loca­ tions of the Company sales branches.

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TWO SETS ON A REVOLVING STAGE scrved to illustrate the contrast between thc early American kitchen and the modern kitchen containing an IH food freezer and streamlined cabinets, sink, garbage disposal unit, dishwasher, electric range, and IH electric refrigerator.

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BESIDES THE GOVERNORS and other sity, La Fayette, Indiana; 500 pupils of Chicago and Gary, Indiana; and a group leading officials of several states, who Robert Morris, Youngman, and Scanlan of vocational agriculture specialists, U. S. headed their state delegations of visitors, schools, Chicago, the East Maine Town­ Office of Education, Federal Security many other notables and special groups ship School of Des Plaines, Illinois, and Agency, Washington, D. C. attended "Harvester's 100 Years in St. Christopher School for Crippled Visitors from abroad or representing Chicago" exposition. Among them were Children; 115 Future Farmers of America other countries included: Y. H. Kwong, a number from other countries. and their advisors from six eastern states, managing director of the Jing Hong Schools and colleges and farm and city on their way home from thc national Trading Corporation, Burma, Rangoon; youth organizations were especially well FFA convention in Kansas City, Missouri; Lord Invercastle, British Ambassador to represented. Included were 100 students and 90 Future Farmers of America, the United States; Harold Father, pub­ of economic history, DePaul University; Owosso, Michigan. licity director in the United States for 75 children, parents, and teachers, Jahn Some other groups were: 100' 'Michigan the Australian Trade Commission; School for Crippled Children; Boy Scout Flying Farmers" who came in their own H. N. D. Sethna and T. P. Francis of the troops of River Forest and Elmhurst, planes on Michigan Day; 150 members, India Supply Mission, New York City; Illinois, and other towns; 60 pupils, Chicago chapter of the American Society G. J. Misse, agricultural advisor to the St. Mary's Croation School, Joliet, of Agricultural Engineers; members, French Embassy, Washington, D. C; Illinois; 40 pupils. Mother of God School, American Society of Corporate Secretar­ Jose Fogued, missionary from China; Waukegan, Illinois; 45 pupils, Travelaire ies, with Sanford B. White, secretary, S. M. Chan, director of the Bank of Day Camp, a Chicago West Side play International Harvester Company, as Canton, Hong Kong, China; D. Mac- club; 19 civil engineering students, host; members, American Road Builders Millan, a farmer from Great Britain; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Association; members, Cuyahoga Falls 10 members of the Burma Youth Mission, 40 pupils, St. Fidelis School, Chicago; (Ohio) chamber of commerce; 35 disabled on a two-weeks' U. S. tour; and six young 14 boys, St. Michael's parochial school, war veterans from Hincs Hospital, British farmers, returning from the con­ Aurora, Illinois; a group of agriculture guests of the Harold F. McCormick vention of the Future Farmers of America and engineering students, Purdue Univer­ Legion Post; members, Kiwanis clubs of in Kansas City, Missouri.

29 Chicago and the reaper factory

THE McCORMICK REAPER FACTORY was one of the first 1902, with a merger of the McCormick Harvesting Machine industrial establishments located in Chicago, and its early Company, the Deering Harvester Company, the Piano Company, success in that city was instrumental in encouraging many the Milwaukee Harvester Machine Company, and rhe Warder, other industries to go there. Cyrus Hall McCormick invented Bushnell & Glessner Company, of Springfield, Ohio. The first his reaper on his father's farm near Steele's Tavern in Rock­ three companies were located in the immediate Chicago area. bridge County, Virginia, in 1831, and proved its worth in a All these companies were manufacturers of harvesting machines, field test that year. He did not market any reapers, however, As the years passed. International Harvester got into the until 1840, and in the following seven years manufactured a few manufacture of a full line of farm machines, and into the hundred reapers through arrangements on a license basis with production of a full line of motor trucks, industrial power agents who had small factories in various parts of the country. equipment, binder twine, steel and, most recently, refrigeration. In the middle 1840's, impressed by the fact that many orders Today the Company operates the following large plants in for his reapers were coming from the new western prairie states, Chicago and its environs: McCormick Works; Tractor Works; Cyrus McCormick made a trip westward to Chicago. His West Pullman Works; McCormick Twine Mills; Wisconsin Steel observations of farming in the west convinced him that he Works; and Melrose Park Works. ' \ _ f- ;: should locate his factory to build reapers in that region. He In addition, the Company has these other operations in recognized in Chicago, even though there was not a single Chicago: General Offices; Manufacturing Research center; railroad into the city at that time, an ideal location from the Education and Training section; 81st Street Transfer House; standpoint of the assembly of the raw materials needed to build Harvester Press; and four motor truck sales agencies in various the reaper and the distribution of the finished machines to the parts of the city. The Company also maintains an experimental great farming regions to the north, east, south, and west. farm near Hinsdale, a Chicago suburb. ; -•''^^' ' ' ' '"^-i" As a result, he formed a partnership with Charles M. Gray, who had manufactured reapers for him in Chicago, and built his first factory in Chicago. It was built during 1847. Thirty- THE FRONT COVER AND COLOR PHOTOS three employes were engaged during the first year, and 500 The front cover color photo is a product of Ben Hyde, of the photographic staff reapers were built and shipped to farmers. of the IH consumer relations department. Mr. Hyde, assisted by Glen E. Ortner, The factory became one of Chicago's most flourishing pre- W. F. Eichmann, and Ralph P. Jungheim, all of the IH consumer relations depart­ Civil War industries, and the reaper played a signal part in giving ment photographic staff, took the other color photos appearing on pages 11-14 the North a distinct economic advantage in the Civil War. and 25-28, with the following exceptions: air view, top of page 11, by Glen E. Ortner; lower view, page 12, by E. A. Hunger, IH consumer relations department; In 1871 the reaper factory was destroyed by the great Chicago stage show scene, top page 26, and pictures on pages 27-28, by Art Mayer of Fire, and Cyrus McCormick decided to build a new factory at Kaufman & Fabry Company, commercial photographers, Chicago. what was then the edge of the city at a point now near the intersection of Blue Island and Western avenues. That plant became the large, present McCormick Works and the nucleus SOME TYPICAL COMMENT of other International Harvester factories in Chicago. "This is no state fair machinery show. It is the story of how development of a hundred labor-saving devices spurred the Midwest to become thc nation's breadbasket and industrial empire ... It is an accurate account of industrial and AS THE YEARS PASSED the reaper was succeeded by the agricultural progress. It shows how fewer men, working less hours, can produce grain binder as a more efficient harvesting machine, and the more. Significant is the fact that nations with much more land and millions binder in turn lost its popularity to the present combine, which of more farmers are now appealing for American-produced food." —Lewis C.French, Milwaukee Journal. cuts and threshes small grains in a single operation. But several of the basic mechanical ideas which Cyrus McCormick "The finest educational exhibit I've seen since Chicago's 'Century of Progress'." built into his first reaper still remain in today's modern combine. —Carl R. Keeler, social science instructor, Chicago Latin School. Cyrus Hall McCormick died in 1884 after he and his two brothers, William S. and Leander J. McCormick, had built the "Like children at a circus, 1,100 of Chicago's foremost business, industrial, civic, religious, and professional leaders (guests at the civic luncheon and preview) strolled McCormick Harvesting Machine Company into a world-wide through the 'big top' and gazed with admiration at IH exhibits showing 100 organization selling its products in all the principal agricultural years of progress."—John Thompson, Chicago Tribune. countries of thc world. His sons, Cyrus H. McCormick and Harold F. McCormick, were active in the business during their "In one hour, the prominent Chicagoans (luncheon preview guests) learned more lifetimes, and a grandson of the inventor. Fowler McCormick, about farming than most of them had ever known before."—Chicago Sun. is now chairman of the Board of Directors of the International "I want to congratulate those who had to do with the planning and perfecting Harvester Company. of this most interesting and educational exhibit of Harvester products." The International Harvester Company came into being in —J. Earl Swaley, Midwest Farm Paper Unit, Inc.

30 CTRUS HALL MCCORMICK (1809-1884), iuveutor of the world's first successful reaper and a founder of the harvesting machine industry.

FIRST GENERAL OFFICES of thc McCotmick Organization, Dearborn and Randolph streets, Chicago, 1879.

PRESENT International Harvester General Offices, Chicago

THE FORGE SHOP On the McCormick' farm. Walnut Grove, Virginia, as it appeared when Cyrus Hall McCormick built his first reaper. This shop still stands. 31 HAMMER BLOWS THAT FREED NATION

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