Word: caterpillar
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...money on two big excavation contracts. His backers advised him to give up contracting, concentrate on manufacturing his dirt-moving machinery. He did. Three years later his profits had jumped 1,026% to $586,378 and he had put up another plant in Peoria, Ill., to be near big Caterpillar Tractor Co. which powered his machinery...
...moose caught in the tracks, and, in the northernmost part, perpetually frozen subsoil that requires a special roadbed. During 110 days of summer he has truck competition. In winter sled-trains, including bunkhouses on runners for the crew, slide up & down Alaska's snowy roads behind five-ton caterpillar tractors. The Richardson Highway, only road in to Fairbanks (not fit for wagons until 1910), does not run away with Ohlson's traffic, because the Government charges commercial trucking on the Highway $9.20 per ton toll and because Ohlson gets permission to cut his freight rates each summer...
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...Caterpillar: "What size do you want...
Soon Adolf finds himself wandering in a garden-"Berchtesgarden, you know"-and comes on a mushroom which turns out to be a small atlas globe with a tall, thin, umbrella-bearing caterpillar on it. Adolf has an uncomfortable suspicion. He becomes excited, and begins to shout about negotiations with "Those dirty Jewish Eskimos." To quiet him, the caterpillar suggests a poem...