Word: movers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of these policies, the NAACP has come under a rather intense legal fire in many of the southern states, which appear determined to hound and harass that organization out of existence. The NAACP has been a prime mover in bringing school segregation cases into the federal courts to get specific desegregation orders, and because of this legal activity against school districts which refuse to comply with the Supreme Court ruling, the association has been branded as subversive and dangerous...
This inflation, he said, is the prime cause of the United Kingdom's relatively poor payments position and the poor payments position, in turn, tends to prevent the complete confidence necessary if sterling is to regain its position as prime mover in world finance...
...Positive Side. Potter is a Communist in reverse himself. For 15 years he was a leading party organizer in Reading. But in 1953, he reports, "I began to feel a deep unrest." Billy Graham came to England, and Potter decided that such a proficient crowd mover might have something to teach a Communist tactician. His first meeting left him cold, but later, when he attended the baptism of a friend whom Graham had converted, Potter was deeply moved. At a Communist mass meeting in Reading Market Square, Potter turned Red faces redder with the announcement that he had turned Christian...
Self-loading Truck. Denver's Mighty Mover Co. showed off an open framework trailer truck that drives over its load, then, with cables on pulleys, hoists the load firmly into the framework. The Straddle Trailer, which can pick up loads 50 ft. long, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. high, can be pulled by a truck cab at speeds up to 60 m.p.h. (cost...
...base of the Röchlings' 250-year-old empire, which spills into West Germany with a coal field near Aachen, a steel business at Mannheim, an iron works at Wetzlar. The family's real rise to power began under sword-scarred Hermann Röchling, prime mover of the Saar's vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping of French iron and steel plants in occupied areas. Later the victorious French sentenced Hermann...