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Entrepreneur from North Dakota made a fortune in international business and gave a lot of it to UND


Entrepreneur from North Dakota made a fortune in international business and gave a lot of it to UND
Did You Know That concludes the story of Ken Hyslop, who helped turn around a struggling company that eventually made the first self-propelled combine.
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Curt Eriksmoen |
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Ken Hyslop as seen in the 1906 University of North Dakota yearbook. Special to The Forum
One of the biggest financial turnarounds in American industry during the 1930s and ‘40s occurred under the leadership of a man from Inkster, N.D.
During the five years prior to Ken Hyslop being named president of the U.S. division of Massey-Harris (MH) in 1938, MH sustained an annual deficit of $4 million dollars. In 1939, Hyslop’s first full year as president, MH again became a profitable company with sales of $21 million, and annual sales climbed to over $100 million by 1945. ....

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Meet the M26 Pershing: The World War II Super Tank


Meet the M26 Pershing: The World War II Super Tank
The M26 would have helped beat the Nazis, but the new tank would not be produced and transported in time.
Key point: The Allies during and after D-Day could really have used the M26. However, that tank would not see action until the Korean War.
“We had been assured by our officers before we invaded France in 1944,” recorded Bill Harris, “that our Sherman tanks could take care of any Nazi armor we met there.”
This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
Harris, a tank gunner in the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, had been told over and over again that the American M4 Sherman Medium Tank (the Allies’ main battle tank) was as good, if not superior, to any armored fighting vehicle in the Wehrmacht’s arsenal. Unfortunately for hundreds of U.S. and Allied tankers, including Harris, who had three Shermans shot from under him during the war in Western Europe, the nine savage weeks ....

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