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...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...
...show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load 48 tons of dirt in 60 seconds, a job that would take a man with a shovel ten days...
...overrun the city and surrounded it to a depth of three miles. General Dean gave the retreat order and led the last Americans in a motor column south from Taejon. Outside the city, he picked up seven walking wounded, loaded them into his jeep and climbed aboard the prime mover of a howitzer. At an enemy roadblock. Dean's aide and his interpreter were wounded. Finally the battered motorcade was stopped by a stalled truck which blocked the road. Dean ordered the vehicles abandoned, and led the men on foot across country into a bean patch. That night...
...some news better than any medicine. After 52 years of Nobel awards, five Norwegian politicians picked Old Soldier Marshall as the first professional military man ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1953 award (a tax-free $33.954) went to him for a civilian achievement: his prime-mover's role as author of the Marshall Plan, which has helped Western Europe's ravaged economies through postwar convalescence. At week's end Marshall flew to Washington, entered Walter Reed Hospital for rest and treatment. From Oslo also came the announcement that Dr. Albert Schweitzer...
...Letter. In Omaha, instructed by Mrs. Hubert Miller to "move anything not nailed down," Mover's Helper George R. Bickel was arrested two hours later for carting $4,725 worth of her jewelry to his hotel room...