Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creatures, the nearest thing to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball is a well-bred, cultured Southern white woman, or her blue-eyed, golden-haired little girl." By contrast, he added: "The social, political, economic and religious preferences of the Negro remain close to the caterpillar and the cockroach . . . proper food for a chimpanzee...
From European banks, such companies as Celanese, General Motors and Caterpillar Tractor have borrowed tens of millions of dollars. The costs are steep -even for prime borrowers, little money is available in Europe for less than 7%, v. about 5% in the U.S. These premiums stand to cut the U.S. companies' foreign earnings, which have been growing faster than domestic earnings. To make borrowing easier, Dow Chemical has bought an interest in an Amsterdam bank, soon will open a wholly-owned bank in Zurich...
Apartment Lottery. Even at such prices space is hard to find. For the past year 19 U.S. families, moved to Tokyo by the Caterpillar Tractor Co., have been living in hotels, unable to find other accommodations. The company is now buying new apartments for them ranging from $60,000 to $90,000 apiece. Though government housing is rented cheap (about $10 per month), access to it is a matter of luck, since the government auctions the precious apartments off by lottery as fast as they are built. Seekers of office space fare little better, typically have...
Nearly every industry is setting new marks. Robust increases were reported by such varied companies as Alcoa (up 19% over 1963's third quarter), American Cyanamid (24%), Caterpillar Tractor (76%), Continental Can (26%), Eastman Kodak (39%), IBM (12%), Polaroid (83%) and Weyerhaeuser (123%). Steelmakers, who face labor negotiations next spring, were pleased but slightly red-faced about their spectacular profits: Republic up 79% , Jones & Laughlin up 97% , Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
...woolly slug is concentrated in eleven states from Maryland to Missouri and Texas, but it has close kin in the Northeast: the caterpillar of the white moth, Lagoa crispata. Other common stingers are the range and saddleback caterpillars, and those of the buck, lo, tussock and brown-tail moths. Where the caterpillars are especially abundant, their hairs may fly through the air in such numbers as to bring on asthma attacks in children who never even touch the beast directly...