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PEORIA, III--Caterpillar Tractor Co. workers will someday see their record six-and-a-half-month strike as "one of the most foolish things that ever happened, "the mayor said after approval of a wage-freeze agreement that reopened the company's plants yesterday...
More than 12,000 United Auto Workers union members were to return in work at Caterpillar plants between 11 p.m. and 11.30 p.m. yesterday, and about 8000 more were to begin work today...
...Order's "Temptation" takes us into a line of quasi-bunny-hoppers, boogieing like a mammoth, 400-legged caterpillar. Then Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" tells the guys not to go around breaking young girls' hearts...
...every bit as accurate for the rest of the Midwest. With its raw energy and perpetual motion, the nation's heartland was synonymous with prosperous cities. Over the years, Chicago became identified with hogs, Toledo with glass, Detroit with automobiles, Akron with rubber. Youngstown with steel, Peoria with Caterpillar tractors.Today, however, in the cities that once were flagships of the region, unemployment has risen higher than in any other area of the U.S. Hit first and hardest by the recession, the Midwest may be the last region in the country to recover. Nonetheless, there are signs everywhere...
...that the ban is lifted, Caterpillar thinks its chances of ever catching up are slim. For severely troubled International Harvester, though, the news was a little bit better. At the meeting, IH Chairman Louis Menk dusted off a contract for a $750 million combine plant for which his company in 1979 had agreeed to provide the engineeering. Said an IH spokesman: "The Soviets indicated they were still eager to go ahead...