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William Blackie, 61, board chairman of Caterpillar Tractor Co., stood in shirtsleeves under a light rain last week, watching a giant yellow tractor rumble through dense woods near Peoria, 111. As the machine darted and bucked, its blade ripped into an expanse oi full-grown oak trees, toppling them like so many toothpicks. Within 40 minutes, an area the size of a football field was cleared for farming. "Our machines are kind of dramatic," allowed Blackie, and the 50 other spectators could only agree. On hand for a three-day land-development conference sponsored by the Peoria-based company, they...
Such muscular diversification is all the more impressive since Caterpillar traces its origins to a single product. The original steam-driven Cat was developed in 1904 by a Californian named Benjamin Holt, who got the novel idea of mounting a tractor on its own treadmill tracks. So successful was Holt's "crawler" concept that it inspired the British invention of the armored tank during World...
...watched his plane being gassed up and trundled into position on the runway at Roosevelt Field (when he finally touched down, he had been without sleep for roughly 54 hours). Several men pushed frantically on the struts to get him started, lumbering through mud puddles. He cleared a tractor (who left a tractor just there?) by 15 feet, the telephone wires...
...Kansas, angry farmers spoke of a "tractor march" on Washington. Across the Midwest, the 250,000-member National Farmers Union planned to boycott auto and farm-equipment makers because of high equipment prices. In 25 states, farmers who earlier this month were selling off some of their breeding stock to avert a threatened oversupply of pigs and calves, last week began dumping milk to drive up prices by 20 a quart...
...Eastern Europe's nervous stable of writers, finding an outlet offers a far greater challenge than finding a theme. Tons of newsprint flow from publishing houses weekly, saturating stores with technical books, biographies of Communist leaders and heroic novels of the Tractor School. But most other works gather dust on censors' desks, forcing many writers to resort to the dangerous system of publishing under a pseudonym in the West...