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...turbosupercharger for heavy-duty tractors and earthmovers has been developed by Los Angeles' Garret Corp. Like a turbosupercharger on a plane, Garrett's device captures hot exhaust gases to drive a turbine, which in turn drives air into the cylinder, increasing combustion and power. Primarily developed for Caterpillar Tractor of Peoria, Ill., the supercharger reportedly boosts heavy-duty diesel-engine output by 50%, trebles the tractor's work capacity. Airesearch next plans to adapt the turbosuperchargers to smaller diesel engines, such as those on trucks and buses...
...Nancy Hallinan (425 pp.; Harper; $3.95), is a first novel that leaps like a trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds of May. To the world at large...
Decatur, machinists in Rockford, farm machinery workers in Rock Island, railroaders in Moline, miners in West Frankfort, Caterpillar workers in Peoria, tank builders in Alton, the farmers in the drought area, auto dealers, grocers and other merchants across the state . . . The figures of these men and women of Illinois whom I have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom...
...Harmon S. Eberhard, 54, a brawny, balding engineer, was elected president of the Caterpillar Tractor Co. Eberhard joined Holt Manufacturing Co. (later merged into Caterpillar) at 16 as a draftsman, helped develop the Army's self-propelled guns, became Caterpillar's chief engineer. He takes over from Louis B. Neumiller, who was named board chairman upon the retirement of Harry H. Fair, prime mover in Caterpillar's formation...
Steel & Oil. Backed by U.S. banks, such firms as Caterpillar, International Harvester, Westinghouse, John Deere and Armco are discussing plans to put money into Argentine enterprises. Armco, Westinghouse, and McKee of Cleveland want to finish the $140 million steel mill the Argentines started at San Nicolas near Rosario. With the enthusiastic blessing of Peron, who now has to spend $500,000 a day of Argentina's dollar funds for foreign oil, representatives of U.S. oil companies have been discussing the future development of the country's underground resources. Argentine sources predict that if the oilmen decide to bring...