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EMERGENCY BAIL-OUTS (continued): • In 1959, a military pilot name Col. Rankin DEERE. JOHN DEERE. (continued): bailed out of his single engine plane when the • engines It was failed while living in Illinois John no-in at 46,000 feet. Athat storm was ticed theover problems that farmers progress the Carolina coast faced at thewhen time, attempting to till soil. Because the area and he went right through the middle of had it. It formerlywould been woodland, soil wastorich normally take a man the 13 minutes fall with which to that far,hummus, but Rankin gotclumped caught inand theclung updrafts the blades of the plows farmers were accusand came to earth 45 minutes later. Fortunateto using. While a broken cirly,tomed his parachute openedrepairing at 10,000 feet and he cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. landed intact. A passing motorist took himHeto employed smithheskills fashion steel the hospital,his where was to treated forthe frostbite blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed and shock. two wooden spokes, then hitched the device • Into1955, PilotIt George ejected fromsoil his a horse. plowed Smith the heavy Illinois disabled plane. That wouldn’t have been like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happenedso bad, except that hethe was in run a F100A Super Sabre to be observing test immediately put jetinfighter flying at own supersonic speedplow. at 35,000 an order for his John Deere He became the firstgave person to ever bail-out • feet. In short order, Deere up his blacksmith while faster on thanmaking the speed of sound. shop traveling and focused plows. The He was flying at 777 mph. On the way company grew steadily and added manydown, emhis clothing shredded, socks, the helployees. In was the late 1840s, and Johnhis relocated met, andoperation oxygen to mask ripped off. He experientire Moline, Illinois. Ashamed enced a deceleration force of 40 G’s, meaning of his own lack of education, John sent his that he weighed an equivalent of 40 times his children to the state’s finest schools. One of weight. He wasdays unconscious whenson he landed his proudest occurred when Charlesin the ocean off the coast of California. By some earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s miracle, there College was a boat less than 100 yards Commercial in Chicago. away. He was in a coma for a week and spent • With his son Charles managing the company, the next six months in the hospital. John found time to pursue philanthropic in-
• During War II, Captain J. H.NationHedley terests.World He co-founded both the First al Bank theover First Germany Congregational was in a and plane whenChurch. the airHe was the mayor Molineout in 1873, craft tookelected a hit. Hedley wasofsucked of the whereatone of hisfeet. firstThe actions the replaceplane 10,000 pilot– took evasive ment by of plummeting the city’s open with a sewer action in adrains vertical dive. When pipe system – saved countless lives by reducthe plane pulled out of the dive, Hedley landthe spread disease. eding unhurt on theoftail. He hung on till the plane was brought safely to a landing. • The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was nativeintoWWII, Afri• During the invasion of Normandy ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was rethousands of dummies were dropped from placedwith with parachutes the image ofalong a North planes withAmerican the real white-tailed deer. In the decades folparatroopers in order to mislead the that Germans lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took concerning the size of the fighting force. over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.
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