Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst offender, say Dr. Campbell W. McMillan and Dr. William R. Purcell in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the caterpillar that grows into one of the flannel moths, Megalopyge opercularis. Country folk use so many other names that they have confused the issue. In North Carolina it is usually the "woolly slug," in Texas it is often "woolly worm," and in between it may be the puss caterpillar, possum bug, or Italian asp. In Mexico it becomes el perrito, or little dog. By any name, it stings...
...years the stand-by of the Caterpillar Tractor Co., the world's largest tractor maker, was the basic tractor-a kind of Model T. But Caterpillar has steadily diversified in recent years, now sells 140 different varieties, from a clawlike ripper that crushes rocks to a road scraper that gulps 66 tons of dirt in 42 seconds. Last week the man responsible for this transformation showed just how good it has been for Caterpillar's business: Chairman Harmon S. Eberhard, 64, announced that first-half sales and profits were the highest in the company's 39-year...
...when they met each other, their own progeny, and mates worse than death. But in the '40s and '50s, the customers got bored with movies that cried werewolf, got fascinated with atomic-age monsters like The Blob, The Thing, The Great Green Og, and a colossal purple caterpillar filled with green radioactive goo. In the '60s, the fashion in fright has become eclectic: mad scientists, mole people, teen-aged werewolves and creatures from outer space have all done a bloody good business. And recently the technicians of terror have also produced a peculiar breed of hybrid horrors...
...Joel Barlow, the Chamber director who earlier had engineered the organization's approval of the tax cut bill, proposed that the Chamber speak up for bigger U.S. business with the East. With the enthusiastic support of outgoing President Edwin P. Neilan, he organized a team of backers, including Caterpillar Tractor President William Blackie, Anderson Clayton Vice President Norman Ness and Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin Canham, a former Chamber president...
...office accounting machines and computers are selling well in most of the world, particularly in Japan. A worldwide building boom is pushing up sales of earth-moving equipment; Caterpillar Tractor's first-quarter exports are up 17%. Because of increased mining activity, mainly in Canada, South America and Africa, export sales of the Denver Equipment Co., one of the leading U.S. makers of mining equipment, rose 45% in the first quarter above their year-ago level. The recent sale of 29 Boeing 727 medium-range jetliners to foreign airlines has reversed a three-year decline in U.S. aircraft exports...