Word: caterpillar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which the Count de Courvallon (played by Chevalier) tries to make a man of his son. His son, the youngest member of the French Academy ("poor boy," murmurs his father) is a young entomologist whose chief goal in life is the capture of Rameses, the rare pink caterpillar. The theme of most of the jokes is a statement made by the Count to his son: "Girls are so much more interesting than boys...
Never before has Caterpillar had so much tough competition to keep ahead of. General Motors acquired Euclid Road Machinery Co. in 1953 to apply its automobile know-how to road-building equipment, pioneered twin-engined crawlers and scrapers, quickly pushed itself into the big five among equipment manufacturers. Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, longtime locomotive manufacturer, switched to road-building equipment, this year expects its construction sales to top $70 million. Dozens of companies manufacturing everything from spinning machines to television towers are starting to make road-building equipment. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. bought the earth-moving division...
...more U.S. capital that goes abroad, the better are chances for easing the U.S. foreign-aid load. For U.S. business itself, expansion abroad is simply business foresight. Says William Blackie, executive vice president of Caterpillar Tractor Co. "The whole world is starting to consume at an accelerated clip. Americans have to face the possibility of being shut out of foreign markets unless they build plants overseas...
...Caterpillar Tractor's side-dumping bucket for crawler tractors. Unlike other buckets, it rests on the end of the rig, can tilt to 60° right or left, deliver load to truck without having tractor turn to dump...
...meet the demand, equipment-makers estimate, they will spend 26% more this year on new plants than they invested in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. alone is budgeting $80 million for expansion this year to bring its postwar total to $500 million through 1960. Bucyrus-Erie Co. will boost production of excavating gear at South Milwaukee, Wis. and Evansville, Ind. General Motors will break ground this summer for an earth-moving-equipment plant southeast of Cleveland...