Word: movers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pages from unprinted diaries and letters of the Adams family, dating from pre-Revolutionary times through World War I. In addition to the published material, microfilms of the entire collection will be available to serious scholars. Walter M. Whitehill, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House and a prime mover of the project, stated that "the first 88 reels will be distributed next week, with the remainder ready about...
...into the vital Gaillard Cut (TIME, May 10) and blocking the Panama Canal, the Canal Co. called for emergency bidding on a contract for the removal of some 2,000,000 cu. yds. of the rocky hill. Seven contracting firms, among them Morrison-Knudsen, world's greatest earth mover, rushed engineers to the canal to study the great fissure splitting the hill. But it was the young and aggressive Tecon Corp. of Dallas that put in the winning offer, 15 minutes before the bidding closed last week...
...would like to compliment you on the May 3 issue of TIME, in which you featured Earth Mover Harry Morrison . . . It is my opinion that Harry Morrison and other American builders of this type are doing more to build good will with our foreign neighbors than the Marshall-Acheson-Dulles combined team has ever done or ever will...
...start a road to the hilltop for operations to come. Probable next step: test borings to map the crevices exactly. In the end, it may be necessary to remove the threatening slab. This week two representatives of the Morrison-Knudsen construction company, world's greatest earth mover (TIME. May 3), flew down to have a look at Contractor's Hill...
...Eberhard joined Holt Manufacturing Co. (later merged into Caterpillar) at 16 as a draftsman, helped develop the Army's self-propelled guns, became Caterpillar's chief engineer. He takes over from Louis B. Neumiller, who was named board chairman upon the retirement of Harry H. Fair, prime mover in Caterpillar's formation...