1.   Eastern Europe was once a retail desert where almost nothing was available in the shops except tractor parts and ten-watt light bulbs.

2.   Second-hand shoppers go to barn sales seeking rusty old tractor parts and kitchen gadgets which they artfully display in their family room.

3.   Soon, unpaid workers were pilfering everything from milk to gasoline to tractor parts, and many of the ablest were migrating to cities.

4.   Surrounded by tractor parts and bags of feed, the cattle ranchers in bib overalls and sales clerks in green smocks divided themselves into Old South and New.

5.   They were melted down to provide metal for power cables, tractor parts and other industrial items.