Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NIPSCO, Edelen's Waukegan, Ill., firm, employs six people and last year grossed $550,000 selling welding equipment and industrial clamps to customers like International Harvester and Caterpillar Tractor. This was to be the year that it would hire another salesman, but instead the money will be used to finance huge unsold inventory. Currently Edelen is paying 25% bank charges on a $125,000 debt. "It costs me one good employee to pay those loans," he says...
Three weeks ago the Corporation voted to abstain on an ACSR-recommended shareholder resolution requiring the Caterpillar Tractor Corporation to review its South Africa operations...
...embargoes are notably unsuccessful in either bringing down hostile regimes, muting their policies or stopping U.S. goods from getting through. Viet Nam has been subject to a trade ban since the 1975 fall of Saigon. Yet that country easily imports American products, ranging from drilling equipment and spare tractor parts to cigarettes and beer, by shipping them through Hong Kong or Singapore. Indeed, the ban is taken so lightly that Hong Kong exporters last year openly declared that $2 million worth of exports to Viet Nam were of U.S. origin. While the embargoes make the symbolic point that...
...series of ACSR meetings begins March 31 when the committee will consider a resolution from shareholders of the Peabody Tractor company calling for the creation of a review committee to oversee machinery sales to the South African government...
When the Sivesk Tractor Engine Repair Plant on the outskirts of Leningrad was formally inaugurated last February, it was heralded by government economic planners as one of the Soviet Union's finest industrial achievements. N.V. Bosenko, chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Technology of the Russian Republic, lavished praise on the executive responsible for the plant's construction. A year after the factory was officially in operation, Pravda called the plant "a thing of beauty, the largest in the industry, meeting the needs of all the collective and state farms of the Northwest." Raved the party newspaper...