Author: Ed Claessen Publisher: Bookhouse Fulfillment ISBN: 9781592984275 Category : Tractor industry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Ford is to automobile what Best is to tractors. Making Tracks: C.L. Best and the Caterpillar Tractor Co. is a complete picture of Clarence Leo Best and why he was driven to live up to his name Best. Read about the little-known history of the name behind the success of the historical California company, the Caterpillar Tractor Co. Best's life was varied and intriguing; designing and building tractors, raising cattle, fistfights in the boardroom, lawsuits and hostile takeovers, and mining gold were a few of the experiences that punctuate the chapters of this brilliant life. Ultimately, Best's improvements to the track-type tractor concept allowed the Caterpillar Tractor Co. to become the world's road builder and so much more. This story follows Best through his life, from working for his father through starting and operating his own company to being chairman of the board for the Caterpillar Tractor Co. for twenty six years. To complete the profile of the man as well as the entrepreneur,
Author: Terry Pindell Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802112798 Category : Railroad travel Languages : en Pages : 399
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The author relates his journey across America aboard passenger trains, recalls the tales of noted figures in the history of American railroading, and highlights adventures and passengers he met along the way
Author: Cocoretto Publisher: Making Tracks ISBN: 9781786282965 Category : Animal tracks Languages : en Pages : 0
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Run little fingers along these chunky, die-cut shapes and guess what created the tracks! Lift the flap to find out if you are right! Develop observation and prediction skills by exploring tracks that can be found in a variety of settings. Did a tractor leave this trail? Or a duck? A rewarding and tactile experience, full of surprises.
Author: Scott Billington Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1496839161 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 251
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From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working primarily in Louisiana for Boston-based Rounder Records, Billington produced such giants as Irma Thomas, Charlie Rich, Buckwheat Zydeco, Johnny Adams, Bobby Rush, Ruth Brown, Beau Jocque, and Solomon Burke. The loving and sometimes irreverent profiles in Making Tracks reveal the triumphs and frustrations of the recording process, and that obsessive quest to capture a transcendent performance. Billington's long working relationships with the artists give him perspective to present them in their complexity—foibles, failures, and fabled feats—while providing a vivid look at the environs in which their music thrived. He tells about Boozoo Chavis’s early days as a musician, jockey, and bartender at his mother’s quarter horse track, and Ruth Brown’s reign as the most popular star in rhythm and blues, when the challenge of traveling on the “chitlin’ circuit” proved the antithesis of the glamour she exuded on stage. In addition, Making Tracks provides a widely accessible study in the craft of recording. Details about the technology and psychology behind the sessions abound. Billington demonstrates varying ways of achieving the mutual goal of a great record. He also introduces the supporting cast of songwriters, musicians, and engineers crucial to the magic in each recording session. Making Tracks sings unforgettably like a "from the vault" discovery.
Author: Scott G Gibson Publisher: Draft2digital ISBN: 9781533752949 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Billy's life has derailed. Although he does well at school, he has no friends and is bullied by the school's chief tormenter, Anthony. His mum, a nurse, is having financial difficulties and often comes home exhausted with a takeaway meal and little time for him. Billy finds comfort in his only friend, who is online, and doesn't even know his real name. Oh, and the wheelchair doesn't really help things either. All he wants is to be accepted and move on with life so he can be happy. Making Tracks is a hopeful story of one boy's struggle to belong in a world that's trying to bring him down.
Author: P. A. Cooks Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 143436254X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 114
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The Cannons of Armageddon is a chilling illustration (64 pages non-fiction, 222 pages fiction) of a very plausable nuclear terrorist attack by al Qaeda and Iran against an America whose government, populaton and electronic infrastructure is currently so unprepared and vunerable that modern technological civilization is destroyed in most of our country.
Author: Charles Lemons Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304153576 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 119
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The title says it all - this is a pictorial account of the move of the U.S. Army's Armor and Cavalry Museum from Fort Knox to Fort Benning. Formerly known as the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor, the museum was ordered to move in 2010 to Fort Benning, along with the U.S. Army Armor Center and School. The book contains over 100 color photographs of the collection as it is packed and transport out of Fort Knox, as well as a list of the vehicles moved.
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