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Other, more expensive tactics are root plowing (a Caterpillar dragging a flat steel blade cuts off the roots beneath the surface) and tree dozing (a crawler tractor with a tree bit on the front uproots each tree). Tree dozing worked so well on John Cargile's ranch at Arden, Texas, that whole stretches of his range are innocent of mesquite. The land gives an impression of splendid cleanliness. A creek flows not far from the ranch house-a sweet luxury in a dry country. Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic...
...pipeline, that has already been licensed by U.S. companies for production by European firms. Reason: any attempt by the U.S. to cut off those agreements retroactively would be a severe blow to European faith in the reliability of major U.S. companies (among them, General Electric and Caterpillar Tractor Co.). As a result of U.S. indecision, European businesses continue to produce U.S.-licensed equipment, such as turbines, pumps and compressors, that are intended for the Soviet pipeline...
...Peoria, Ill., the Caterpillar Tractor Co. will lay off 1,700 workers this week, and those who are about to join the jobless are still disbelieving. "It's like being wounded in battle," says Jim O'Connor, president of United Auto Workers Local 794. "The initial shock is buried. Until a couple of months ago, people were walking around here with Reagan buttons on. Now I'm asking them if they liked inflation and a job better than no job. And they're saying, 'I'd rather have a job and raise hell about...
Many, perhaps most, of the discouraged turn to welfare. It is a necessity for Bernie Bell, 35, of Peoria, Ill., who has not found work since he was laid off from a Caterpillar Tractor plant in July 1980. He was making $10.57 an hour as a janitor. Last October, about the time his unemployment benefits ran out, Bell started accepting welfare. He also decided to stop looking for jobs until the economy around Peoria improves. Said he: "I've been all over this area and there ain't nothing out there." The decision to accept his unemployment...
American companies doubt that the U.S. will receive full backing from its allies. Caterpillar Tractor Co., which is losing an $80 million contract to supply the Soviets with 200 pipelaying machines for their planned natural gas pipeline from Siberia to West Germany, expects a Japanese company to fill that order. Fumes a Caterpillar executive: "Reagan's not denying pipelayers to Moscow, only our pipelayers...