A Thesis submitted to the Department of English and the Graduate Council of the Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science.
This proposal was presented to the War Food Administration in August 1943 and approved on September 15, 1943. Massey Harris asked to be "permitted to build an additional 500 Self-propelled Combines to assist in the harvesting of 14,000,000 additional acres of wheat in 1944."
This booklet has information on the Harvest Brigade that includes the plan, advertising, pledge of the Harvest Brigade, how the 1945 Harvest Brigade differed from 1944, the Brigade operators, service and parts supply depots, and how the Harvest Brigade had the full cooperation of the government.