Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trouble. Layoffs were spreading in other industries. At General Electric's appliance park in Louisville, 28% of the 11,000 employees have been furloughed. Caterpillar Tractor has laid...
...break came as shortages were putting heavy pressure on management. In Peoria, Caterpillar (tractors and earth-moving equipment) announced layoffs of 11,500 men at three Illinois plants and in San Leandro, Calif. In General Motors' parts plants, there were widespread layoffs. The corporation also said that it will have to begin closing many assembly plants, starting with Chevrolet the first of October, although it thought it could keep some Chevy plants running to Nov. 1. Chrysler said it will start shutting down in November. Even Ford, which makes 40% of its steel at the integrated Rouge plant, expects...
...processionary caterpillar plays a lifelong game of follow-the-leader, and if the head of the first caterpillar is introduced to the tail of the last, the entire procession goes round and round until all the caterpillars die of starvation...
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...what makes living creatures grow and what makes most of them stop growing as they reach maturity. In Nature, Professor Carroll M. Williams of Harvard describes research that may cast light on this basic mystery. He has extracted from mammalian tissues a "golden oil" that, injected into a caterpillar, stops its development and prevents its transformation into a butterfly...