Meet the American who invented the gas-powered tractor, entrepreneur John Froelich, helped feed the world

A small-town American farmboy gave the fight against food insecurity real traction.

His name was John Froelich. 

And he helped feed the world in ways that Bob Geldof, Boy George and a galaxy of other celebrities connected to the holiday hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?" — including global community efforts to feed the world much, much later in the 1980s — could only imagine.

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All it took was American ingenuity...