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This French expedition, backed by Motorman Andre Citroen, led by Explorer Georges-Marie Haardt, was headed for Peiping, China, 8,000 miles away. Before it lay deserts, wastelands, mountains no motor car, few men, had ever climbed. That was why, instead of rear wheels, the cars had tractor bands, why a heavy tanklike arrangement with auxiliary bands was mounted between the front wheels. On the expedition were a dozen men, including one American, the National Geographic Society's Dr. Maynard Owen Williams. For their use & comfort the cars carried stationery, typewriters, archives, maps, books, artists' materials, guns, ammunition...
Last week, tired and jaded, Explorer Haardt and his 27 men had done with mountains, deserts and bandits for a while. Last obstacle had been the theft by Mongolian bandits of tractor bands for the cars. On worn bands the cars carried the party to clean clothes, bath tubs, decorations* and a good long rest. But for intrepid Explorer Petropavlosky, Peiping meant a bride. He had met Miss Barbara Rose Schurman while her father, Cornell's Jacob Gould Schurman, was Minister to China, but to marry her he had waited until the completion of the expedition, for which...
...During the week a tractor-drawn truck. creaking beneath the weight of 6,000.000 pacifist signatures, hove in sight of the Conference with 15 women seated upon it, each waving a Peace Flag. This tribute the Conference received. Also the Conferees began to refer informally to the U. S. female delegate as "Doc," a tag fastened upon Delegate Mary Emma Woolley, Litt. D., by the irrepressible Will Rogers. To the Press "Doc" said: "I never yet have met a difficulty out of which a way could not be found. Some-thing more than a paring here and there is needed...
...Heaven stepped down, entered a state coach and, escorted by a squadron of lancers, rolled back to the Imperial Palace. Just outside the Palace grounds the cavalcade turned in through the Sakuradamon or Cherry Village Gate. A Mr. James L. Vierhus, employe of a Peoria. Ill., tractor firm, was standing on the curb. Afterwards he told what happened...
...Because Caterpillar Tractor Co. had big orders from Russia and has a large road implement business in addition to farm machinery it was expected to weather the Depression nobly, was a favorite stock even after 1929. But for the half it earned only $1,446,000 against...