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Word: borg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laid off 9,000 of their 12,200 workers at Willow Run, where the C-119 Boxcars were made on license from Fairchild Engine & Aircraft, their original designer. Auto production (250 cars a day) had already been halted in the plant a few days earlier, when a strike at Borg-Warner shut off K-F's supply of automatic transmissions and forced a layoff 'of 2,200 men. At week's end, there were only 1,000 K-F workers left, finishing up the last Boxcars and making auto parts for other manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Ax for Willow Run | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Fully Automatic. The Chrysler Corp. announced that fully automatic transmissions will be standard equipment on all new Chrysler Imperials and Crown Imperials. Similar to the Borg-Warner type used by Ford, the new transmission will probably be used later on Dodge, De Soto and Plymouth cars. Price as optional equipment: approximately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...SIGNE BORG Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...shift to automatic transmissions, automen have added a shoal of new words to the language. Most of them, as might be expected, end in "matic" (e.g., Hydra-Matic, Gyro-Matic, Ultramatic). Last week the Ford Motor Co. announced a new automatic transmission of its own, developed with Borg-Warner Corp. for the 1951 Mercurys. Its name: "Merc-O-Matic." In a few months the company will bring out a new transmission, optional on all 1951 Fords. The name, to nobody's great surprise: "Ford-O-Matic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Matics Have It | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...committee consisted of Kenneth F. Borg '50, chairman William R. Polk '51, Donald Blackmer '52 J. Cooper Blankenship '51, and Frank H. Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Drive Succeeds | 1/6/1950 | See Source »

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