Word: caterpillared
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...green caterpillar on a giraffe's neck . . . . A black cat looking pensively at a magnificent peacock just dead . . . . The Coliseum by full moonlight, three white cats in the arena playing . . . . 3 donkeys, 2 bottles, 5 Fascist soldiers outside a hotel in Naples serenading five American girls peeping from behind lace curtains . . . . A peasant woman in a field holding a child on her shoulders so that he could see over the wheat to the setting sun . . . . In the Cathedral at Agrigenti: a letter written by the devill
...White House, President Roosevelt was giving his last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third successive year to send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar Tractor Co. told how he settled a sit-down by CIO "brigands." With comfort they listened to a running fire of legal advice on the Wagner Act by John D. Black, member of the Chicago law firm of Silas Hardy Strawn, potent onetime president of the Chamber. Might they fire...
...good sense to handle truthfully and artlessly. Asia, if not the darkest of the continents, is the greatest and the richest in mysterious meaning. These Frenchmen, traveling from Beirut to Pekin approximately along the route of Marco Polo, proceeds in business-like fashion, using powerful trucks with caterpillar treads in the rear, and yet they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen in Bagdad; then, as we penetrate deeper, there are wild, frenzied dances of the nomadic tribesmen; the ruined palace...
...Caterpillar Tractor, largest U. S. maker of Diesel-type power units, reported third-quarter profits of $2,551,379, compared to $1,403,491 in the same three months last year. Profits for the nine months were $7,032,470 as against $4,311,643 in the same period...
...current recruiting campaign, because modern armies are twice as complex as those of 1914, it takes twice as long to train an efficient soldier. Since the announcement of new plans to mechanize the British cavalry, troopers have been scratching their heads over engine diagrams, the intricacies of caterpillar treads and short-wave wireless. Even the infantry has had to struggle with such new devices as the Boys rifle, a ponderous blunderbuss that weighs 35 lb., fires a 5-in. cartridge through the steel walls of tanks...