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Giant Tractor. General Motors entered the earth-moving equipment field last week with a 26-ton, twin-diesel (each engine 190 h.p.) Crawler tractor, more powerful than any now in production. The tractor will be on sale early next year at a price to be set later...
...roundup were 70 pieces of heavy machinery, 29 of them completely new. They were the latest evidence that machines for construction work and farms have become so specialized that there is a different one for almost every job. Star of the show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load...
...truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender." But more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles -no automobiles at all." But though postwar motorists were gradually...
...position with a Missouri road construction company. In 1931 he Became sales manager of the tractor division, and ten years later its general manager. The division developed such products as the first tractor with rubber tires, an all-crop harvester that outsold every other combine, a huge 20-ton crawler tractor, and during World War II made high-speed crawler prime movers for the Army. Since the end of the war, the tractor division's sales have been five times the best prewar years. The division now does 60% of the company's business...
...sheer misuse of apparent purpose, perhaps the "night crawler" deserves special mention. No one knows what this young lady does with herself during the daytime, but like the stars, she comes out at night. Fall of vim and vigor, she easily eclipses the she-skiers, and ogles all tired but available males...