The production of ploughshares and other spares, and of machinery generally, is steadily increasing.
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Do you know that an ordinaryploughsharewhen it is in use us pulled through soil for a distance of twelve miles in a day.
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Let us strike, then, and hammer out here aploughsharewhich will till the world.
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Now we know what has happened about steel and about ploughshares, and some of us are beginning to have a few doubts about houses.
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Is it surprising that at the end of the twelve miles theploughshareis worn out and a new one is wanted.
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Many of them just bought an ironploughshare.
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To my mind, it is quite astounding that a farmer should be unable to get all the ploughshares he needs.
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I do not produce ploughshares; they are produced by the manufacturers.
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We have been trying successfully to increase the number of ploughshares during the last few months.
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I am sorry to interrupt, but could we have some ploughshares?
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The other day we were hunting over the county to find ploughshares.
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Production of ploughshares is increasing steadily and the manufacturers have assured me that available supplies are distributed as evenly as possible.
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But owing to the dry season we have had this year, ploughshares are breaking off like carrots the moment they are put into the ground.
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We should have gone right into all the industrial establishments, taken them out of the hands of the industrialists and turned their arms into ploughshares.
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Under the safety at work legislation, one cannot have unguarded machinery because one can sell aploughsharecheaper without the safety at work legislation.
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