Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have in use two tractors: one 'Caterpillar' 4O-h.p. diesel, 1937 model, and another a John Deere diesel model 'A', I also have a 10-h.p. diesel motor for other purposes...
...armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris of recent battles...
...several times life size. The photographs came from U.S. scenes as far apart as Boulder Dam and Vermont. The battleship at the top came from the picture files of LIFE; airplanes came from the Paramount picture I Wanted Wings. The California farm worker at left glances back at a caterpillar tractor from Washington which has just passed over a Montana wheat field nestling at the foot of Glacier National Park's Going to the Sun Mountain. The mother in central panel is an Idaho farmer's wife. The sky above her is from Montana. The moppets below...
...caterpillar tractor was found hidden in the woods and idle for three months, though $650 a month rental was paid...
Small Sandra Michael writes her five episodes a week sitting outdoors (if necessary, in blankets) in South Norwalk, Conn. A churchbell or a caterpillar on a leaf is enough to give her a start. By other than soap opera standards, her stuff is only fair. Her worst, deadline-rushed scripts are aimless and sentimental. But from her best a listener may at least get the shiver of sincere emotion conveyed, an honest word spoken...