Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests. John Pierpont Morgan was under doctor's orders not to shoot, but opened his Gannochy Moor for guests. Active U. S. shooters included William Woodward, who leased one of the best moors at Clova, and Edmund P. Rogers, who paid $15,000 for the season rights to the moors of both Stobo Castle and Leithen Castle...
...wish to call attention to a mistake in TIME, May 31. On your centre page ads concerning Caterpillar Tractors it says that Crater Lake is in California...
...green caterpillar on a giraffe's neck . . . . A black cat looking pensively at a magnificent peacock just dead . . . . The Coliseum by full moonlight, three white cats in the arena playing . . . . 3 donkeys, 2 bottles, 5 Fascist soldiers outside a hotel in Naples serenading five American girls peeping from behind lace curtains . . . . A peasant woman in a field holding a child on her shoulders so that he could see over the wheat to the setting sun . . . . In the Cathedral at Agrigenti: a letter written by the devill
...White House, President Roosevelt was giving his last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third successive year to send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar Tractor Co. told how he settled a sit-down by CIO "brigands." With comfort they listened to a running fire of legal advice on the Wagner Act by John D. Black, member of the Chicago law firm of Silas Hardy Strawn, potent onetime president of the Chamber. Might they fire...
...good sense to handle truthfully and artlessly. Asia, if not the darkest of the continents, is the greatest and the richest in mysterious meaning. These Frenchmen, traveling from Beirut to Pekin approximately along the route of Marco Polo, proceeds in business-like fashion, using powerful trucks with caterpillar treads in the rear, and yet they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen in Bagdad; then, as we penetrate deeper, there are wild, frenzied dances of the nomadic tribesmen; the ruined palace...