Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mishaps could have been far more disastrous. The six-lane Interstate 95 is a main route for tens of thousands of Connecticut suburbanites who commute daily to Manhattan. When the bridge collapsed just before 1:30 a.m., however, only four vehicles were zooming over the affected eastbound lanes: two tractor-trailers and two passenger cars. A few hundred feet away, Gordon Oilman was drawn to his home's riverfront window. "I thought I heard an explosion," he says. "I looked out and saw a truck and a car coming off the bridge...
...hundreds of thousands of hands shot into the air in a V-for-victory sign. Red-and-white banners bearing the words SOLIDARITY and GDANSK sprouted from the stands and above the crowd outside the stadium amid hundreds of national flags and papal banners. A delegation from the Ursus Tractor Factory, once a hotbed of union activity, made its presence known with a sign reading URSUS WORKERS GREET THE POPE WITH SOLIDARITY. Another poster proclaimed: GOD, HONOR, HOMELAND, WE PRAY FOR THE PRISONERS. Security guards spread throughout the stadium made no attempt to pull down the offending slogans. But officers...
While workers were replacing steam line tunnels, the ground beneath a tractor collapsed, and the tractor's arm slipped and tell into the tunnel, rupturing the Cambridge Water Supply pipe, said Thomas Taverna, supervisor of the construction...
...beaming workers pouring through the gates at Caterpillar Tractor's East Peoria plant were obviously happy to be back on the job after the longest company-wide strike in United Auto Workers history. But they were not a bit pleased about what the walkout had cost them. Art Borowiec, 43, an electrician, figures he lost nearly $20,000 in wages and benefits during the 205-day strike, and like many of his coworkers, he doubts that the results were worth it. Says he: "I've never been so broke, desperate or dependent. I'd like to have...
PEORIA, III--Caterpillar Tractor Co. workers will someday see their record six-and-a-half-month strike as "one of the most foolish things that ever happened, "the mayor said after approval of a wage-freeze agreement that reopened the company's plants yesterday...