Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other business friends are General Motors, DuPont de Nemours, International Harvester, John Deere Co., Caterpillar Tractor, Radio Corp. and the U. S. Shipping Board, which sold the Reds a fleet of 25 cargo steamers (TIME, Jan. 27). Banks which sent business-getters to Moscow last year include National City. Chase National, Equitable Trust...
...Caterpillar Tractor...
...chronicle of the Caterpillar Club appears this week in a new book Jump! by Don Glassman,graduate of the University of Missouri, journalist. A "Caterpillar" is a flyer who has dropped over the side of a disabled or lost plane-like a butterfly wriggling out of its cocoon-and swung down through space to safety with parachute mushrooming over his head...
Many and potent are the stories of the "Caterpillars." In 1919, the blimp Wingfoot Express flew over Chicago on a good-will tour of inspection. Directly over the business section, one of her motors backfired, flames licked open the hydrogen-filled bag. In an instant, the peaceful scene changed to a holocaust. Four of the five passengers jumped with parachutes. The fifth, his harness tangled, fumbled and fumbled with it as the white-hot wreckage carried him to death. The flames ignited the parachute of one of the jumpers. He dropped straight to destruction. The other three landed. One died...
...Caterpillar Tractor Corp. (1,300 tractors bought by the Soviet Grain Trust), $51,750,000 as against...