Word: caterpillars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August the nation's department stores showed a 6% sales gain over the comparable week for 1954. In fact, spending was so free that a cloud of inflation loomed on the horizon. Farm equipment prices moved up (an average, 6% for Ford Motor Co., 7% for Caterpillar Tractor Co. and Deere & Co.); building materials, coal, work clothes and soft goods were edging upward. But Administration economists were carefully watching the trend (TIME...
...clergy: "To say little or nothing about . . . how the dead live, or with what body they will hereafter come. These are matters belonging to the other side of death, and there is no more reason to suppose we can imagine them reliably than we have to suppose a caterpillar on a leaf can imagine what it is like...
...almost every U.S. company. American Motors (Nash, Hudson), struggling against odds to improve its share of the auto market, had the first profitable quarter since its merger (May 1, 1954). Earnings hit $1,592,307 against a loss of $3,848,667 during the same period last year. Caterpillar Tractor also did better this year, earning $8,390,403 in the second quarter v. $7,007,326 a year ago. Glen Alden Corp., after suffering through years of a coal depression, earned $1,695,000 during the first half of 1955, compared to a loss of $169,000 last year...
...interfaith chapel of the U.S. Air Force Academy, to be constructed outside Colorado Springs, Colo., was designed, said its architects, to dominate the entire academy. After the U.S. public saw pictures of preliminary models-the chapel looked like a cross between an accordion and a caterpillar (TIME, May 23)-it became obvious that the building would also dominate the controversy over the academy's ultramodern architecture...
...corn picker that can be attached to the front of a standard four-wheeled tractor. Another new development: a machine called the Wonsover, which a Maine inventor named Herman Cohen will soon put into production. It was developed with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate of 50,000 strokes a minute; other attachments mix fertilizer and lime, plant seed, cover and fumigate the soil against insects, all in a single operation...