Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five dramatic hours fully 1,000.000 Russians striding 75 abreast surged like a broad, human river past Stalin. Of the marchers 40,000 were picked Red Army troops. They marched and wheeled in perfect parade formation to a crunching accompaniment of fast Red Army caterpillar tanks, some mounting 2-in. guns. Leading the parade on a prancing cavalry charger rode red-faced, ham-fisted War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, bowing and grinning, cheered as loudly on this day as the Red Dictator himself...
...fairyland! Its women are beautiful! Its character is best interpreted by its man-built wonders, les skyscrapers! I certainly hope to return. It is possible, however, that I shall accept an invitation to join a French expedition which is going to Timbuktu, crossing the Sahara desert in caterpillar automobiles...
...their planes fell, the crowd heard Lieut. Emile Chourre. standing before a microphone on the field, calmly broadcast the event as if it were part of the entertainment. Said he: "Keep your seats everybody and watch for the boys to come out. Two of them will shortly join the Caterpillar Club. Here they come. There's one, and now? there's the other. Everybody's all right. Chutes opened as scheduled and they will soon be down looking for more planes...
...Because Caterpillar Tractor Co. had big orders from Russia and has a large road implement business in addition to farm machinery it was expected to weather the Depression nobly, was a favorite stock even after 1929. But for the half it earned only $1,446,000 against...
...only Americans in Vladivostok are the experts maintained by the Caterpillar Tractor company of Peoria...