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...orange and crimson plazas in Valparaiso and Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
Garner invented the basic design for the filter while working on an experimental tractor during World War I. Later he sold filters to C. L. Best, big California tractor builder, which subsequently was merged into Caterpillar. Though Caterpillar changed to another filter, Garner kept as his peacetime customers such firms as Cleveland Tractor, John Deere, Allis-Chalmers, Case...
Dust hung low on the shimmering horizon. It parted like a curtain, and out of it raced columns of jeeps, radio cars, light and medium tanks, self-propelled 75-mm. guns and towed 105-mm. howitzers, anti-aircraft trucks, supply cars, ambulances and caterpillar tank-retrievers...
...main strength was apparently concentrated in a vast arc before Stalingrad, that German positions along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within his grasp. With brains and reasonable luck he might sever that artery by autumn, cut the Red army and Russia...
...have in use two tractors: one 'Caterpillar' 4O-h.p. diesel, 1937 model, and another a John Deere diesel model 'A', I also have a 10-h.p. diesel motor for other purposes...