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...haul truck, but they still have not stipulated how this weight should" be distributed over each axle. Five of the six prefer 13-ton limits per axle, but the Dutch, because of their soggy, shifting subsoil, demand a lighter weight of ten tons. Similarly, in designing a common farm tractor, the Dutch want safety features to prevent the tractor from toppling backward as it pulls attachments through their heavy-clay lowland soil. The French want a tractor engineered not to topple sideways on the hills, where much French farming is done...
...mostly have their headquarters in oil-rich Houston or Tulsa, are essentially transportation companies that shy from outright owner ship of production facilities. The 92 major oil pipeline companies that move 75% of all U.S. crude oil shipments and 45% of all finished products - ranging from jet fuels to tractor fuels - are owned either by individual oil companies or by consortiums. Service Pipe Line Co., "the largest (14,000 miles of pipe), is a Standard Oil of Indiana subsidiary, and runner-up Humble Pipe Line Co. (11,700 miles) does two-thirds of its business with parent Humble...
Nearly every industry is setting new marks. Robust increases were reported by such varied companies as Alcoa (up 19% over 1963's third quarter), American Cyanamid (24%), Caterpillar Tractor (76%), Continental Can (26%), Eastman Kodak (39%), IBM (12%), Polaroid (83%) and Weyerhaeuser (123%). Steelmakers, who face labor negotiations next spring, were pleased but slightly red-faced about their spectacular profits: Republic up 79% , Jones & Laughlin up 97% , Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
...years the stand-by of the Caterpillar Tractor Co., the world's largest tractor maker, was the basic tractor-a kind of Model T. But Caterpillar has steadily diversified in recent years, now sells 140 different varieties, from a clawlike ripper that crushes rocks to a road scraper that gulps 66 tons of dirt in 42 seconds. Last week the man responsible for this transformation showed just how good it has been for Caterpillar's business: Chairman Harmon S. Eberhard, 64, announced that first-half sales and profits were the highest in the company's 39-year...
French impressionism. Yet, except for Lenin Prizewinner Aleksandr Deineka's husky peasant girls, which Estorick probably bought for diplomatic reasons, the show is not a dismal display of the Russian Tractor Style. Instead, the rest of the exhibition is heavy with still lifes and landscapes, competent, vaguely Western, strangely empty of invention. Perhaps half a dozen of the 82 artists are important...