Word: tractorized
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Garner invented the basic design for the filter while working on an experimental tractor during World War I. Later he sold filters to C. L. Best, big California tractor builder, which subsequently was merged into Caterpillar. Though Caterpillar changed to another filter, Garner kept as his peacetime customers such firms as Cleveland Tractor, John Deere, Allis-Chalmers, Case...
Straight from battle Russian tanks lurched into the great Dzerzhinsky tractor plant for repairs, rumbled out again next morning to rejoin the fight. The Red October and Red Barricade plants kept grinding out guns and ammunition despite fire and bomb. Sprawling along the Volga in northern Stalingrad, the three plants were keystones to the city's defense-forts no less than arsenals. As the siege neared its 60th day, fighting focused on those factories...
...smoke of German bombs already had blotted out much of the industrial smoke which rose over Stalingrad during three Five-Year Plans that changed a country town into a modern city, that upped its population from 150,000 to 500,000. From the great tractor plant on Stalingrad's northern outskirts to the metallurgical works on the southwest, chemical, machinery, leather, oil and many other industrial plants were scattered through the city. Most of them were turned to war production, so that when the battle neared Stalingrad tanks rolled from factory to front. Interspersed among the factories were workers...
Precious factories by last week had been stripped of some of their machinery, which was shipped with skilled workers to safety beyond the Urals. River boats and barges, operated entirely by women, had ferried part of the famed Dzerzhinsky tractor plant (now converted to tank manufacture) up the Volga to Kazan, where it was transshipped on flat cars by the Trans-Siberian railway. Other factories still were producing war supplies. Soldiers and workers fighting one battle mingled in the crowded boulevards of the city...
...solve this stuttering maintenance the Army needed an Army man with industry know-how. Glancy's knockabout experience had included engineering in Cuba, managing an iron foundry, a tractor and auto company, and generally trouble shooting for General Motors...