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...easygoing Campbell worked as a lineman for Southern Bell Telephone Co. and a tractor dealer, then joined the Calhoun bank in 1968. He rose to vice president in three years. But Campbell apparently found his $18,000 salary inadequate. Beginning in 1971, he began diverting bank funds to his own use, pumping the money mainly into a 460-acre Angus cattle ranch he bought near Calhoun. His main technique, curiously risky in such a small town, was to take out loans in the names of other people and even a local church He filed all the proper papers, then pocketed...
...General Reinsurance Group $21,790,981 MAPCO $21,218,851 Getty $20,219,9033 Atlantic Richfield $17,570,839 Standard Oil of California $17,074,654 St. Regis Paper $15,353,397 General Electric $15,187,405 Sears, Roebuck $14,924,096 Beneficial $13,822,884 Caterpillar Tractor $13,741,103 Province of Ontario $12,335,910 Dow Chemical $12,227,949 Aluminum Co. of America $11,865,565 Union Carbide $11,068,724 U.S. Steel $10,915,154 Kimberly-Clark $10,676,454 International Nickel of Canada $10,502,593 Procter & Gamble $10,376,375 Continental Group...
...Minnesota wheat farmer plowing up the south 40 in a Soviet-built tractor? It sounds about as likely as a Muscovite munching black-eyed peas-but it shouldn't. During the past three years, Satra Corp., a New York City-based firm that markets Soviet exports in the West, has managed to sell more than 1,000 sturdy Soviet-built Belarus tractors to American farmers. This may not be much when measured as a percentage of the total U.S. tractor market (1976 sales: 153,000 units), but it was enough to convince the Soviet state corporation Traktoroexport that...
...Belarus has stockpiled a $5 million inventory of spares in its Milwaukee plant, where a team of Soviet mechanics works, and in its Toronto facility. Says Chambers flatly: "We are competitive in spare-parts service with any American company." Another help: Soviet farmers are often far from the nearest tractor dealer, so the tractors have been designed for quick and simple on-the-spot servicing...
...that, the American market is dominated by such massive and well-entrenched firms as International Harvester, John Deere and Ford, and Belarus will do well to meet its modest sales target of 1,900 tractors annually by 1980. It will be many years more before tractor exports have any perceptible impact on the Soviet Union's giant deficit in trade with the U.S. (more than $2 billion last year). But it seems somehow fitting that the Kremlin, having become a large and steady customer for American grain, is supplying tractors to help plant and harvest the crops...