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...after another, the orchards near Yuba City, Calif., yielded their grisly secrets. Using shovels, a tractor and eventually even a light plane with an infra-red camera, police unearthed 25 decomposing bodies, mostly itinerant farm laborers, all hacked to death with a machete-like weapon. It was the worst series of murders in U.S. history...
...shortly to order $60 million worth of earth-moving equipment for excavation of their huge new Kama River truck factory. At week's end, as if to signify that such business deals were already becoming routine, the Soviets signed a $68 million order for pipelaying equipment with Caterpillar Tractor...
...Tractor. In the Byzantine world of farm economics, prosperity does not necessarily depend on record production. In fact the Agriculture Department estimates that total crop production in 1972 will be about 1% less than last year. But since many crops were in oversupply last year, prices were down. This year, by contrast, the market belongs to the farmer. Tobacco auctioneers in North Carolina, where the crop was kept short by the weather, are being forced to ration tobacco at premium prices among customers; in effect the auctions, though performed for custom's sake, are a sham. In California...
...action began at 7:35 p.m. with a rally in a parking lot on the corner of Prospect and Austin Streets. As a series of speakers condemned the trucks for creating noise, pollution, running building foundation and endangering small children , grant tractor-trailers rumbled by in the background...
With this inflow of capital, OYAK investments have spread throughout the Turkish economy. The fund owns controlling interests in Turkish Automotive Industry, a company that assembles International Harvester trucks and tractors; MAT, a truck and tractor sales firm; the OYAK Insurance Co.; Tukas, a food canning firm; and a $3,000,000 cement plant. OYAK also holds 20% of the $50 million Petkim Petrochemical plant, scheduled to begin operations within three years, 8% of state-owned Turkish Petroleum and 7% of a $5.6 million tire factory owned mostly by Goodyear. Civilians operate the companies, but many key posts are held...