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    "ocrText": "-2-\nI have had some other experiences that are interesting.\nIn those days, we had what we called a gang plow, two twelve-inch\nplows on the same frame with three wheels on it, and the loco-\nmotive power was four horses, or four mules, or three mules and\na horse, or whatever you could get to pull it. It moved at a\nrate where it turned over a two-foot furrow, and you could count\nthe revolutions of the big wheel, from which you could tell how\nlong it would take to plow an acre or to plow a field -- three\nor four days, sometimes longer.\nNow you can get on a tractor and plow night and day --\nyou don't have to feed it or water it -- you can get off it when-\never you please, take a nap, come back and run it again. I\ndidn't live on the form in this age. I'm sorry I didn't. I don't\nwant to turn the clock back. I don't want to go back to the\nhorse and buggy age, although some of our Republican friends do.\nMR. PLAMBECK: Mr. Truman President Truman, we know that\nyou have a schedule to make and that those who are in charge of\nthat schedule are very anxious to have you go with them in the\nnext few seconds. Before you do, may I remind you again that\nmany of these people have come here since you made your appear-\nonce earlier today and that elthough we have no definite, final\nfigure or count, but I have heard many estimates that there are\nmore than 100,000 people here to see you, and many of these\npeople are seeing you for the first time. Possibly just in clos-\ning, you might want to make a statement as to how you feel about\ncoming back to the land of golden corn and green fields?\nTHE PRESIDENT: I will come back any time you ask me, es-\npecially if I am met by ten acres of people. Now you figure out\nhow many the t is!\n#"
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