Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have seemed strangely uncomplicated to Harvard officials when the tractor trailer slithered through Boston streets in darkness one morning this August. Carrying the last of six mammoth diesel engines from a South Boston warehouse where they had collected dust for five years, the trailer encountered a small group of Brookline and Mission Hill protestors as it entered Harvard's controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP). There were some black balloons held by the sleepy-eyed outside. There were even two minor arrests. But by daylight, the last engine was behind the plant's gates; in a few hours...
...plenty of time to read. A dog-eared Book of Knowledge encyclopedia, copies of the National Geographic Magazine and her father's assorted volumes from the Book-of-the-Month Club fed her curiosity. By the age often, she could drive both a truck and a tractor. "I didn't do all the things boys did, but I fixed windmills and repaired fences." Recalls her girlhood friend and cousin, Flournoy Manzo: "We played with dolls, but we knew what to do with screwdrivers and nails too. Living on a ranch made us very self-sufficient...
Finally, the Central Committee also endorsed a minor shake-up in the ruling Politburo. Out went the ineffectual former Premier, Jozef Pinkowski. In came two workers, Gerard Gabrys, a miner, and Zygmunt Wronski, a molder at the Ursus tractor factory. Their inclusion in the party's supreme body, said Kania, was "the first step toward extending the representation of workers from the provinces into the Politburo...
...assertions with a slide show that included blowups of documents allegedly written by a Communist guerrilla leader and detailing commitments made by Viet Nam, Ethiopia, the Soviet Union and East European nations to provide military hardware. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence was a series of photographs of a tractor-trailer said to have been captured in Honduras. Underneath the trailer's false bottom was a cache of about 150 M-16 assault rifles. Serial numbers on U.S. weapons recovered from the guerrillas have been traced to the arsenal left behind by U.S. forces in Viet...
...only too eager to help. The steel mills of Western Europe are now operating under capacity, and large manufacturers like Mannesmannröhren-Werke see big profits from the sale of expensive gas pipe. Two American firms are also looking for a share of the construction contract: Caterpillar Tractor hopes to get as much as $1 billion worth of business for road-building and pipelaying equipment, and International Harvester sees potential sales for compressor-station components...