The Man Who Was C.L. Best

Caterpillar Tractor Co. was all of two years old in 1925, when the company hired F. Hal Higgins as a news editor. Higgins moved to California, where he would work for Caterpillar from 1927 to 1933. In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, he left Caterpillar to launch a freelance career in agriculture journalism that would go on to span five decades. This account of early ...

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