Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard cast its first proxy ballot of the year against management yesterday, supporting a shareholder resolution to force the Caterpillar Tractor Company to disclose detailed information on its operations in South Africa...
...ACSR condemned South African racism in uncompromising terms last week and questioned Caterpillar Tractor's "sensitivity and concern...
...expected shortly to order $60 million worth of earth-moving equipment for excavation of their huge new Kama River truck factory. At week's end, as if to signify that such business deals were already becoming routine, the Soviets signed a $68 million order for pipelaying equipment with Caterpillar Tractor...
...whole economy. Profits were up in 27 of the 32 industries in Citi-Bank's study, and the list of companies that have reported an after-tax earnings gain of 20% or more in the second quarter is impressive-General Motors, Ford, IBM, Sperry Rand, DuPont, Union Carbide, Caterpillar Tractor, International Paper, B F. Goodrich, Eastman Kodak and Zenith. Small firms in the same fields are often doing even better, according to Michael K. Evans, president of Philadelphia's Chase Econometrics, "'because they were hurt worse in the recession and so are starting from further back...
...first possible moment. Quite a few business leaders, however, have become increasingly devoted converts to governmental guidelines. An especially telling sign of their approval came last week in a report by the Committee for Economic Development, an organization of top-ranking corporate chieftains-including executives of Jersey Standard, Caterpillar Tractor, IBM and Continental Can. The group called for a long-term Phase III that would involve a "continuing, direct Government role in wage and price policies even after compulsory controls are lifted...