Word: breech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought the Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II, "the Whiz Kids," and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech...
...excellent health, she got just the sort of treatment she had asked for: only a local anesthetic before delivery. Baby girl No. 1 (4 lbs. 2½ oz.) arrived at 3:27 p.m.; No. 2 (same weight) at 3:29; No. 3 (2 lbs. 9½ oz.) by breech delivery at 3:40 p.m.; and No. 4 (3 lbs. 12½ oz.) at 3:45. As each baby was born, Dr. Noble held her up and the mother listened to their successive cries...
...that fall--the sophomore year for the Class of 1937--that Harvard and Princeton smoothed over an eight-year breech in athletic relations, meeting on the gridiron for the first time since 1926. Back in the 'twenties there had been a lot of haggling about whether Princeton really deserved as important a place as Yale on the Crimson's fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Harvard Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing...
...Trust Co. and Equitable Life finally agreed to lend TWA the money, but only on stringent conditions: Hughes was obliged to place the 78% of TWA's stock owned by Hughes Tool Co. under the control of a voting trust composed of former Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving S. Olds, and Raymond M. Holliday, chief operating officer of Hughes Tool...
...Ernest R. Breech, 64, former board chairman of Ford Motor Co., was elected chairman of the board of Trans-World Airlines, although the operating head will continue to be new President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. TWA also announced a $183 million purchase-and-lease arrangement with Boeing Airplane Co. to boost its jet fleet to 77 planes by the fall...