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...almost every U.S. company. American Motors (Nash, Hudson), struggling against odds to improve its share of the auto market, had the first profitable quarter since its merger (May 1, 1954). Earnings hit $1,592,307 against a loss of $3,848,667 during the same period last year. Caterpillar Tractor also did better this year, earning $8,390,403 in the second quarter v. $7,007,326 a year ago. Glen Alden Corp., after suffering through years of a coal depression, earned $1,695,000 during the first half of 1955, compared to a loss of $169,000 last year...
...interfaith chapel of the U.S. Air Force Academy, to be constructed outside Colorado Springs, Colo., was designed, said its architects, to dominate the entire academy. After the U.S. public saw pictures of preliminary models-the chapel looked like a cross between an accordion and a caterpillar (TIME, May 23)-it became obvious that the building would also dominate the controversy over the academy's ultramodern architecture...
...corn picker that can be attached to the front of a standard four-wheeled tractor. Another new development: a machine called the Wonsover, which a Maine inventor named Herman Cohen will soon put into production. It was developed with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate of 50,000 strokes a minute; other attachments mix fertilizer and lime, plant seed, cover and fumigate the soil against insects, all in a single operation...
...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...
...requires 30,000 new engineers annually; the new production burdens of the cold war require another 10,000 a year. But last year accredited U.S. schools graduated only 19,650 engineers-less than half the required number. Lacking engineers, U.S. companies have begun refusing Government research projects. Caterpillar Tractor alone turned down six armed forces contracts...