Word: tractorized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese laundry after a hurricane," with assorted litter peppering the snow. But getting around the Antarctic by land is still quite a trick. Last week New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, arrived at the South Pole after a 1,200-mile journey by tractor from the British base at Scott Station on the Ross Sea (see map). He made it with only one drum of gasoline left, enough for 20 miles of travel...
Working under Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, commander of Operation Deep Freeze Three, Linehan set off three blasts of TNT in a 48-ft. crater not far from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt...
...such companies are out to help is not the employee who goes on an occasional binge but the worker whose job suffers from his drinking. "You must be very careful," says Dr. Harold Vonachen, head of Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s medical department, "that you're not dealing with just the social phenomenon of martinis before dinner or drinking one too many on Saturday night." To discover the man who is having real trouble handling his liquor -and the problem strikes executive and machinist alike-companies brief supervisory personnel on the signs to watch for, such as frequent absenteeism...
...Russians for inferior quality, the Chinese are allowed to buy what the Russians will not take. And once in a while, a Communist newspaper makes a slip. Example: one Cantonese newspaper impressed on its readers that 22,000 Ibs. of frozen pork can be exchanged abroad for one tractor...
...third-floor composing room of the Chicago Sun-Times last week, a forklift truck nosed up to a clattering Linotype and tweaked it away from under the operator's fingers. Backing out, the tractor trundled the two-ton Linotype to a special elevator hoist that whisked it into a waiting truck on Franklin Street. Twenty minutes later the Linotype, its lead still molten, clattered back into action at the new $20 million Sun-Times building on the north side of the Chicago River, six blocks away...