Word: caterpillar
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...Administration took an anxious look at the country's wornout farm implements. Old strikes at other farm implement companies (International Harvester, Caterpillar Tractor, John Deere, Oliver Farm Equipment) had already set farm production back. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach looked down his gun. He told Clausen and Geist to make "a real effort" to settle things-or the U.S. would move...
...restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well as to outlying claims, is furnished by Canadian Pacific Airlines and by bush pilots in small planes like ski-or pontoon-equipped Noorduyn Norsemen...
...other, and outdoors one of them could keep up with the train, which then seemed to be racing with a butterfly. .. . . Once the [train] stopped in the open fields and Laura saw the engineer ... go out and pick some specially fine goldenrod. . . . Sometimes like a fuzzy caterpillar looking in the cotton was a winding line of thick green willows and cypresses, and when the train crossed this green, running on a loud iron bridge, down its center like a golden mark on the caterpillar's back would be a bayou...
...dreamers dared hope for a postwar caterpillar with the voice of Nelson Eddy and the brains of Aldous Huxley. But cinemaddicts may soon get just that. The Walt Disney studios have announced some ambitious plans for the next five years...
...certain lusty "natural appetites," and many Peorians saw no reason to ignore them. The town's distilleries turned the corn harvest into liquor, and Peoria's back streets were always comfortably shaded by brothels, gambling joints and saloons. When the river trade fell off and industry (Caterpillar Tractor, Hiram Walker, Keystone Steel & Wire) came in, Peoria went on being the biggest little wide open town in the Midwest...