together."

Former marketing executive Walter M. Buescher (1991) said, that Allis-Chalmers "was a conglomerate before the word was coined." Whether or not it is literally true, that Allis-Chalmers predated the sense of "conglomerate" meaning a widely diversified parent corporation, Buescher's point is valid: Allis-Chalmers, despite its common theme of machinery, was an amalgamation of disparate business lines, each with a unique marketplace, beginning in an era when consolidations within industries were