Word: steers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pride themselves on skillful ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply "stinkpotters." who think there is nothing more to know about seamanship than how to push a starter button and steer. They in turn suffer the derisive snort of "rag-haulers." The schism runs deep. After all, say the rag-haulers, we were here first...
AMMAN, Jordan, May 10--The new premier of Jordan said today that this country will steer clear of military pacts with either East or West...
Next, Old Guardsman Barry Goldwater, though he had been less than enthusiastic about having Good Ikeman Morton as national chairman, took the microphone to wish him well and urge him to steer the Republican Party to the right. As for the Democrats, said Goldwater, "there is no Democratic Party. There is a shell that has been crawled into by labor, led by that redhead from Detroit named Reuther. We've got to stop being nice to them. We've called them liberals. They aren't liberals they are radicals...
Based on Meyer Levin's novel about the LeopoldLoeb case, Compulsion is a well-wrought film which manages to steer around the usual stereotyped situations of college rebellion, detective work, and courtroom emotion. Primarily responsible are Dean Stockwell and Bradford Stillman as the paranoid Judd Steiner and the schizoid Artie Straus, and Orson Welles, who carries the latter part of the film on his sizeable bulk while playing the defense attorney (Clarence Darrow was responsible for life imprisonment sentences rather than the gallows for his clients...
Chesler constructed General Development on another corporate shell: Detroit's Chemical Research Co. He bought in cheaply, helped steer the company into Florida real estate, in mid-1957 picked up another 520,000 shares at $7.15 each, and went to work to expand the company. General's earnings rose from $2.1 million in 1957 to $6.6 million in 1958, or $2.80 a share. Yet this is not cash on hand. When General sells an $895 lot for $10 down and $10 a month, it counts the full profit on the sale as current profit, even though it will...