Word: moving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week India's little Communist Party saw a chance to move its country toward the frustration and chaos the Reds have helped to create in much of postwar Asia. The Indian government acted faster than the Reds and thwarted them-for the present...
...Juan Domingo Perón had two visible means of political support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once was. When the third anniversary...
Kern's houses, ranging from four rooms ($4,700) to six ($8,550) take ten days to build. They move on rollers out of a shed and along an assembly line. When completed, they are loaded onto a house mover's dolly and hauled to the building site (within a ten-mile radius). There the house is worked onto a concrete block foundation. The final plumbing and electrical connections can be made the same...
Paramount President Barney Balaban put on a brave front. Said he: "The consent judgment . . . opens the way to one of the most constructive moves in the history of the corporation." But the constructive move broke up one of the biggest and most profitable U.S. movie companies at a time when the outlook for all moviemakers was none too good. On the other hand, moviegoers would benefit. "Clearances," which now prevent small theaters from showing pictures too soon after their first run, are banned. In many small towns this would give a wider selection of pictures. Among the separation terms...
...accusers of Dr. Mirian Van Waters have dropped their claim that she had forged the signature of former Correction Commissioner J. Paul Doyle on the indenture of a reformatory inmate. The move was taken during yesterday's hearing in Langdell Courtroom before the three-man board appointed by governor Paul A. Dever and headed by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School...