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...native of Union Springs, Ala., Blount, 60, formed his company in 1946 after wartime service as a B-29 bomber pilot. Along with his brother Houston, who later left the business, he started by investing $28,000 to buy four Caterpillar earthmovers. Blount soon gained a national reputation for tackling jobs that were uniquely challenging and thus uncommonly profitable. Among his more memorable monuments: Kennedy Space Center's Launch Site 39A-from which the space shuttle Columbia took off, an underground convention center in Cleveland, atomic research laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Government's maximum-security...
...only too eager to help. The steel mills of Western Europe are now operating under capacity, and large manufacturers like Mannesmannröhren-Werke see big profits from the sale of expensive gas pipe. Two American firms are also looking for a share of the construction contract: Caterpillar Tractor hopes to get as much as $1 billion worth of business for road-building and pipelaying equipment, and International Harvester sees potential sales for compressor-station components...
That lifestyle can't last--at least not without some adaptation. The dated caravan is running up against the changes that come with the modernity overtaking Brazil. Huge American Caterpillar bulldozers are ripping through the jungle, and the "fishbones" of TV antennas poke up everywhere. In one hamlet, Gypsy and Salome explore the apparently deserted town, wondering whether to present their show, only to find the entire community sitting in churchlike attendance on a single, tiny TV screen glowing with disco action from the dance floor of "American Bandstand." Searching for towns where progress has not yet stolen their audience...
Exports of manufactured products have traditionally been dominated by a handful of the nation's largest companies, including Boeing, General Electric, Caterpillar Tractor, McDonnell Douglas and Du Pont. A surprising new export winner is the American textile industry, which is the world leader in productivity despite relatively high labor costs. Burlington Industries of New York, the nation's largest textile maker, with 1979 sales of $2.7 billion, saw its foreign business jump by 40% during the year. The big sellers: carpets, towels, curtains and clothing...
High in our maple, oak and beech trees, however, their chewing at midsummer is loud enough to be audible. The noise sounds so much like soft wind that it is soothing. Billions of minute, odorless brown particles of caterpillar scat fall as a result, and the ears of a listener are tricked into informing his brain that a very light rain is pattering down. So far, the tourists have not seemed to understand what is happening, and are well pleased with the sound of very light rain on rainless days...