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...Then I saw the ladder from the evacuation," Hank Meijer relates. "My first thought was, That's an important piece of history; perhaps I can pay somebody a few hundred bucks to weld it off with a blowtorch, then crate it up and ship it back to Michigan for display at the Ford Museum." He resisted, but when he returned to Grand Rapids and told his father about the ladder, Fred Meijer was captivated, and determined to put those "18 steps to freedom" on permanent display before the American people. He figured his fellow board members at the Ford Foundation...
...crate or kennel anywhere. At night pampered pooches stay in a three-bedroom Bed and Biscuit Inn, complete with windows, kitchen and a family room with TV. There are five beds in each room, and, for an extra charge, a "Bed Buddy" from the staff will stay overnight with dogs accustomed to sleeping with humans. Basic boarding is $45 a day; with behavior and obedience classes, the weekly fee is $500. (Telephone...
Each item goes into a large green crate that contains many customers' orders. When full, the crates ride a series of conveyor belts that winds more than 1 miles through the plant at a constant speed of 2.9 ft. per sec. The bar code on each item is scanned 15 times, by machines and by many of the 600 full-time workers, all of whom get Amazon stock options...
...design for an electronic translator to Sharp Corp. He was so absorbed in the process that he forgot to wheel his Porsche over to Berkeley city hall for his own wedding. He founded Softbank Corp. in Tokyo in 1981. Legend has it that after he stood atop a crate and ranted about the company's future domination of the PC industry, his first two employees quit on the spot. Despite that vote of no confidence, Softbank went on to become Japan's leading software distributor...
Palmer's Pickup (March 1999) Robert Carradine and a buddy drive cross-country hauling a crate that contains Satan...