Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foresters have used enormous D9 Caterpillar tractors to help dig a 60-mile fire line around 40% of the blaze. Hoping to squeeze off some of the rest, Al West, an official of the Los Padres National Forest, ordered the construction of an eightmile, 30-to 40-ft.-wide road, cut by eight bulldozers near the fire's northern edge. West wanted to save an additional 25,000 acres of wilderness that forms the Carmel Valley Watershed; the effort failed, and now the water supply for 20,000 people around Monterey is threatened...
...City Basketball for the past few years has been Columbia. Ever since Jim McMillian graduated to find his place in life as the quintessential team player on the Knicks and Heyward Dotson accepted a Rhodes Scholarship, Columbia fans have shown about as much enthusiasm as a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar from his salad...
...involved Ludwig in a coals-to-Newcastle operation: cutting down jungle in order to plant new trees. The native forest contains far too many species of trees?more than 300 different kinds on any given acre?for profitable lumbering. At a cost of $250,000 each, Ludwig imported giant Caterpillar "jungle crushers," overgrown bulldozers designed to pull down the natural jungle growth. But these machines proved useless because they damaged the unexpectedly delicate Amazon topsoil. Today one of the jungle crushers stands abandoned and rusting on the outskirts of Monte Dourado. The job is now being done by work gangs...
...pick-up chugged along, with the cab humping upward every third beat somewhat like a caterpillar crawl. It was the single dirtiest vehicle I had ever ridden in--when I retrieved my bright-red backpack out of the back at the end of my ride, it had turned brown, brown with black racing stripes. Come to find out the driver carried his organic fertilizer around back there, mostly cow manure, that is, with pig and chicken droppings thrown in as a kicker. But you couldn't ask for a more pleasant ride--Mt. Pisgah National Forest, hills and dales, glinting...
Surprisingly, the largest number have resettled in a city that is neither Moslem nor even in the Middle East -Athens. Some 70 major U.S. companies have moved their regional headquarters there from Beirut, among them National Cash Register, Caterpillar, Boeing, Control Data, Exxon, Goodyear, Union Carbide, Chase Manhattan Bank and Morgan Guaranty Trust...