BUILDING: New Tools

In the desert ten miles south of Phoenix, Ariz., International Harvester Co. showed 600 distributors from the U.S. and 20 foreign countries its new line of equipment at work. In the roundup were 70 pieces of heavy machinery, 29 of them completely new. They were the latest evidence that machines for construction work and farms have become so specialized that there is a different one for almost every job. Star of the show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn...

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