Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kaiserslautern, Mannheim, Pirmasens and Germersheim to pick up their prepositioned hardware-319 M48 medium, 50-ton tanks, 76 howitzers, 429 armored personnel carriers. Stockpiled during the 1961 Berlin crisis, the equipment has been sitting idle ever since. At Kaiserslautern three unbroken columns of tanks, guns and ammunition stretch caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous helpings of chicken, turkey, potatoes, ice cream, crisp red apples...
True, a few families have had a minimum amount of power. Buster Bray has kept the Dirty Shame alight with electricity generated by a diesel Caterpillar in a shed behind the saloon. But "the Monster," as he calls it, has been running night and day for three years. It costs $26 a day, and, when it coughs at night, it wakes up folks for miles around. Bray is waiting impatiently for the rural cooperative to string its power-line to his part of the valley...
...seems to have all the drive and flair he needs, but his taste is still a bit green. He tells about the mating of a steel Superman with a cast iron Superwoman, and he makes noises that suggest a 20-ton, front-end loader scooping up a Caterpillar tractor and heading off into the bush. "You know how they had to deliver the baby?" he asks. "With a blowtorch...
...insistence of the U.S. Occupation authorities (and softened by later amendments) seems to be no obstacle; after all, it has not stopped the zaibatsu. Still, there are other problems, such as how the merging companies will juggle their foreign commitments. One Mitsubishi subsidiary, for example, has an agreement with Caterpillar Tractor to produce the same products turned out by another Mitsubishi firm...
Welcome for Wives. Last week circuit-riding Berlitz instructors were teaching Japanese in Chicago to employees of Caterpillar Tractor, Spanish and German in Moline to officials of John Deere, and French in Wilmington to executives of Du Pont. U.S. Steel sends large groups of executives to Berlitz to determine which ones can learn Spanish fastest, later selects some of them for assignment to Venezuela. Corporation wives are almost always included in the various courses; companies have found that wives who are left speechless abroad soon start clamoring for a costly transfer back home...