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INTERNATIONAL HARVESTE
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Built 1929 to 1943
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HISTORICALLY |H
PROUD
1831 -1984
LINKS A STRONG HERITAGE
TO A FRONTIER OF INNOVATION
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The history of American business reveals a no more
colorful nor inspiring story than that of the growth and
development of the International Harvester Company
Although in its present form it has been in existence
only since 1902, the Company’s history reaches back to
1831, when Cyrus Hall McCormick demonstrated his
first reaper to a skeptical gathering at his father’s
farm near Steele’s Tavern, Virginia. Few corporations
of similar size and importance can lay claim to such a
background of tradition and continuous operation.
The farm equipment industry, exemplified by the
International Harvester Company, is a distinctively
American enterprise It is doubtful that its phenomenal
growth and development over the past century could
have been nurtured in any but the vigorous pioneering
soil of the United States The Company has grown with
the nation and helped the nation grow Certainly it
could have reached its present stage only under the
pecularly American system of free enterprise. It is
equally obvious that our present industrial civilization
would have arrived much more slowly without the in
vention and prelection of farm machinery This
identification with history is possible only in business
with a background of tradition and service in complete
accord with that of the nation in which it was founded
Many of the fundamental concepts initiated by Cyrus
Hall McCormick - absolute honesty in all dealings, the
building of a quality product at prices his customers
could afford to pay, and a safeguarding of that product
with service that protects the customer - arc still the
living roots of International Harvester policy Today's
International Harvester spirit is based on Mc-
Cormick’s fighting determination to progress in his
field and build machines that would best serve the
customer and the nation
Lancaster Farming Special
Supplement to Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 28,1.
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