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Caterpillar Road Grader Video Review

SS Wilson drives a 1952 Caterpillar road grader.

PPG INDST : PPG selected as coatings supplier for Caterpillar's new North ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2011 - Caterpillar Inc. has selected PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) industrial coatings business that the only heavy equipment coatings supplier for a new assembly plant grader North Little Rock, Arkansas

In addition to serving as a single source supplier of coatings, PPG is provided on site technical support and product approval, and training in the paint factory online service operators through its knowledge in the College of Technology coating application.

John Valasco, PPG global account manager, said he believes this project will recognize the renewed commitment of PPG coatings for heavy equipment. "We're not here just to sell a gallon of paint or a powder box," he said. "We work with clients such as Caterpillar to demonstrate our capabilities as a supplier of finishing solutions.

Senator Bill Hardt: Mr Rural Arizona

August Valentine "Bill" Hardt has been a champion of rural Arizona, a hardworking legislator who has long earned things. After a variety of jobs, including vacuum cleaner salesman, grader, miner, and owns a sporting goods store, Hardt entered local politics in the 1950s and the state legislature in the years 1960. Finally, he spent over 30 years of service to citizens in rural Arizona. He said the guardian angel sent him to Arizona instead of California, and those who benefited from his bill would agree.

The Early Days ... Hardt was born in 1906 on a farm in south-central Texas, just outside of Hondo, just west of SanAntonio. His grandparents on both sides were part of a great wave of German immigrants who came to the Republic of Texas in the early 1840s, when he was still an independent nation. Their farm was not so far from Mexico City to Hardt said of his first day at school he spoke German and Spanish into English more than him. In his autobiography, he remembered what was the most hard work: cut the weeds, pulling cotton, milking cows, feeding chickens has been working from dawn to dusk and never did.Even when he was young, Hardt thought to himself, "I want out of it and do something else.