Word: crawler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tractor War. These flat statements from two working generals, who have seen the tractor fight the war all over the world, underlined one of the most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...
Equipped with bulldozer blades, tractors hack out advance landing fields (see cut), push roads through the jungle and-in the Solomons-one armored giant even buried a dozen Japs in a pillbox that unprotected troops had been unable to approach (TIME, Dec. 20). Crawler tractors cleared banks, helped ford and bridge the Volturno River in Italy. Besides construction work, new-type tractors drag heavy artillery at more than 30 m.p.h.; others nudge landing barges off beaches and (with power winches attached) do all kinds of fabulous lifting and pulling jobs...