Word: movers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan's Republican state central committee in 1943, he proved so successful in getting contributions that other Republican leaders came to Michigan to find out how he did it. (His system: divide the state into districts, ask each donor for only one contribution and budget political expenses.) Prime mover in the campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination for Senator Arthur Vandenberg in 1948 ("I still feel that Vandenberg could have been nominated. All we needed was his active participation"), he repeatedly asserted his neutrality in the Taft-Eisenhower fight leading up to the 1952 Republican Convention. At Chicago...
Into the Mud. A quiet, grey-thatched man who looks more like a banker than an earth mover, Kiewit nevertheless knows how to slog into the mud, show his men what to do, get the most out of them. If he likes a job, he says: "I'm pleased but not satisfied." He has an unpretentious office on the tenth floor of the Omaha National Bank building, maintains twelve others from coast to coast, but is stubbornly publicity-shy. "We've done pretty well without it," he says laconically. He seldom takes a vacation, but sometimes, with...
...recently for the Ohio atom plant, Kiewit's name was one of a dozen or more recommended. But in weeding the list down, the AEC decided that ever-ready Kiewit was the only one with enough equipment and men at the ready to tackle the job immediately. Earth-Mover Kiewit was pleased, but not satisfied, when he won the second biggest contract in history...
Spiritual Point Four. But Earth-Mover LeTourneau has never been satisfied just to fill the financial side of his bargain. After a trip to Liberia in 1951, he decided that the best way to teach the Gospel to the natives was to teach them American technical skills at the same time. From the Liberian government LeTourneau leased 500,000 acres of jungle for 80 years at 6? an acre, laid plans to cultivate the land with such crops as rice, grapefruit, bananas and palms, cut down and export mahogany. He agreed to pour back the first five years' profits...
...from 1950. Tom Nichols thinks that with such products as Squibb's new TB drug (TIME, March 3), he can pull up Squibb's profits still further. To do so in the fastest moving of all chemical fields-the wonder drugs-Fast Mover Nichols will have to step livelier than ever...