Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France once again would welcome American investment. Thus Chicago-based Motorola has just won official permission to build a multimillion-dollar plant at Toulouse to make transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. recently received approval for a semiconductor factory at Colmar, and the French subsidiary of Caterpillar got authority in mid-March to double the size of its Grenoble tractor factory. Though the French still consider some industries off limits for foreign capital-among them, defense, steel, chemicals and some types of electronics-the Ministry of Economics and Finance so far this year has not turned away...
...Teacher Irene Patterson asks her children about spring, gets murmured answers about birds and flowers, finds that the topic becomes vivid and exciting to the kids after they view a film showing buds bursting into leaves through speeded-up film. A similar movie, also speeded up, shows how a caterpillar spins a cocoon, emerges as a splendid monarch butterfly-an experience no textbook or teacher or even nature can otherwise convey...
...Selina calls him, drops her off for the infrequent pleasure of an outing in the park. As she turns to her beads under a shade tree, a caterpillar wriggles down the back of her dress. She screams. A hand some young Negro (Sidney Poitier) runs to help, and the stage is set for the rather obvious tale of a girl to whom all men are colorless. In time she tells her new-found friend her problems, and he, of course, understands instinctively, given the troubles he's seen...
Manufacturers of smaller generators for hospitals, schools and radio stations are also enjoying hefty orders. Cummins Engine Co. expects sales of its diesel-powered generators in November and December to climb 25% above last year. Caterpillar Tractor Co. has received a rush of orders for its 13 diesel-powered models. Since the blackout, Westinghouse has sold to utilities about 40 gas-driven turbines to use as starters for their big generators. And for the homeowner afraid of the dark, Studebaker Corp.'s Onan division sells a suitcase-sized, 500-watt generator that is powered by home-heating...
...million. The young owners of National Football League franchises-notably the Philadelphia Eagles' Jerry Wolman, 38, and the Cleveland Browns' Art Modell, 41-have seen the value of their investments rise by more than $1,000,000 annually for the past several years. Even the typical Caterpillar Tractor dealer is a millionaire...