1.   Alexandru Ioan Pop, head of the union in the Brasov tractor plant, sat in a well-stocked bakery with a foreign reporter and drew the comparison.

2.   Randy and Vicki moved to Cedar Falls, outside Waterloo, where he worked at the John Deere tractor manufacturing plant and she worked as a secretary.

3.   Some private ventures, like a Ford Motor Co. tractor plant in Minsk, have simply shut down most operations for the duration.

4.   Terry Hardy, a tool maker at the John Deere tractor plant in Dubuque, Iowa, moonlights there as an ergonomic superhero.

5.   The Tractorul tractor plant did the same, and feels stabbed by both East and West.

6.   Before night lightened to morning, Gore stood under a black umbrella meeting workers as they reported for shift at a John Deere tractor plant.