Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caterpillar had so much tough competition to keep ahead of. General Motors acquired Euclid Road Machinery Co. in 1953 to apply its automobile know-how to road-building equipment, pioneered twin-engined crawlers and scrapers, quickly pushed itself into the big five among equipment manufacturers. Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, longtime locomotive manufacturer, switched to road-building equipment, this year expects its construction sales to top $70 million. Dozens of companies manufacturing everything from spinning machines to television towers are starting to make road-building equipment. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. bought the earth-moving division of his company from...
...South American by birth. Sert came to the United States in 1939. He has had extensive experience in long-range planning, having designed the master plans for the cities of Lima, Peru; Medellin, Cali, and Bogota, Colombia...
...Groton, Conn. last week, two sleek, new submarines for the Peruvian navy slid down the ways in a dramatic double launching, and a watching crowd cheered. In Lima, a sour official communiqué suggested that the new government would have been just as happy if the submarines had never been ordered...
...Comercio, La Prensa (usually pro-Prado) and a lot of Peruvian businessmen, the President's freehandedness seemed dangerously inflationary. In a Lima restaurant, a Peruvian economist quipped: "If President Prado's budget is austerity, then this"-he held up a piece of Melba toast-"is a Nesselrode...
...Lima, Peru...