Encyclopedia Of Cleveland History

The army application of Cleveland Tractor’s products became dominant during World Struggle II when the agency manufactured a new, high-pace tractor for hauling artillery. Though the company acquired a gentle circulation of orders, the low profit in defense work and the research prices for brand new merchandise convinced President White to sell the corporate to the 96-year-previous Oliver Corp. of Chicago in 1944. Oliver invested $3.5 million within the aging plant to develop new merchandise. However, Cleveland Tractor remained unprofitable till the Korean Conflict revived its enterprise. When White Motor Corp. took a 2-year option to buy the tractor plant and acquired exclusive rights to the Oliver title in 1959, права на экскаватор Oliver renamed its Cleveland services Cletrac Inc. In 1961 White Motor bought the native Cletrac inventories, engineering designs, and machine tools and closed the plant, consolidating all production at a second plant in Charles City, IA.

In July 2004, Greg LeMond, three-time Tour de France winner and rival of Armstrong, secretly recorded a telephone dialog between himself and Stephanie McIlvain, who labored for Armstrong as liaison to sponsor Oakley. LeMond asked her if she would inform the reality about a dialog she overheard within the hospital when Lance was being treated for testicular most cancers, and she said she would not lie and that she heard it. In 2005, as witnesses in a lawsuit introduced by Armstrong towards SCA Promotions, Betsy and Frankie Andreu testified that in 1996 they overhead Armstrong admit to using steroids and different performance-enhancing medication to a doctor within the hospital the place he was being handled; McIlvain gave a deposition saying that she did not overhear him making the admission. Armstrong insisted that hospital staff never requested him if he doped, and his lawyer said that the medical data confirmed no evidence of that dialog.

«The Olympics can no extra have a financial deficit than a man can have a baby,» declared the mayor of Montreal before opening of those video games in 1976. Boy, was he improper. The Montreal Olympics went down in historical past as a notorious cash-loser, scaring off many cities from bidding for the video games sooner or later.