Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harmon S. Eberhard, 54, a brawny, balding engineer, was elected president of the Caterpillar Tractor Co. Eberhard joined Holt Manufacturing Co. (later merged into Caterpillar) at 16 as a draftsman, helped develop the Army's self-propelled guns, became Caterpillar's chief engineer. He takes over from Louis B. Neumiller, who was named board chairman upon the retirement of Harry H. Fair, prime mover in Caterpillar's formation...
Steel & Oil. Backed by U.S. banks, such firms as Caterpillar, International Harvester, Westinghouse, John Deere and Armco are discussing plans to put money into Argentine enterprises. Armco, Westinghouse, and McKee of Cleveland want to finish the $140 million steel mill the Argentines started at San Nicolas near Rosario. With the enthusiastic blessing of Peron, who now has to spend $500,000 a day of Argentina's dollar funds for foreign oil, representatives of U.S. oil companies have been discussing the future development of the country's underground resources. Argentine sources predict that if the oilmen decide to bring...
...Although he had had to defy his own parents on a choice of career, Newman had no trouble with his own son, Leonard Hugh. Born on the Bexley butterfly farm, the boy grew up in a fluttering world that was timed to the persistent rhythm of mating, egg laying, caterpillar collecting, pupation and maturing butterflies. Before he was eight, he was showing precocious skill at spotting rare specimens. "There had never been any question of an alternative career for me," acknowledges Leonard Hugh in a book, Butterfly Farmer, just published in England (Phoenix House...
...where happy Cardinal Lercaro stood, tossing out little sacks of cookies and sweets and being pelted with confetti and rice. A few days later, on St. Joseph's Day, the cardinal again broke out his carnival displays-the giant Mickey Mouse, the enormous papier-mâché caterpillar, the ducks and the Martian flying saucers. This time, 40,000 people came for the fun, while Mayor Dozza's city police dutifully kept order...
...fuzzy-wuzzy caterpillar is sporting wide stripes these days, and to all ski enthusiasts, this is as sure an indication as any that the oncoming winter will be a good one. And even before the snow came to Cambridge last weekend; the Crimson ski team was limbering itself up in preparation for what it hopes will be its best season since...