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...Dressed for a Party." Back in Flint, Curtice weeded out the deadwood, kept the good. Under his predecessor, every section of the Buick operation went its own way, with production problems being blamed on engineering, engineering problems blamed on styling, and so on down the line. Curtice called in the heads of all departments on major decisions so that each might know the others' problems and help in their solution. He also had the ads changed to plug the theme that Buick was an auto for the young, with such headlines as DRESSED FOR A PARTY-POWERED...
With his shiny new equipment, Morrison joined the big Utah Construction Co. in 1925 on a joint bid for the $2,300,000 Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, followed it up with another for Deadwood Dam in the mountains of central Idaho. The experience gave M-K the know-how to tackle the biggest of them all in 1931-the Arizona-Nevada giant Hoover Dam that was to rise 726 ft. above the Colorado River, generate power at the rate of 4 billion kw. a year. On Deadwood, M-K used some of the first bulldozers, began testing diesel trucks...
...sporadic local show to a nationwide (Boston to San Francisco) sport witnessed by some 20 million people last year at nearly 600 rodeos. In his 14-year career, Linderman has also collected some spectacular bruises, e.g., a fractured skull at Pueblo, Colo. (1943), a broken neck and back at Deadwood, S. Dak. (1946), not to mention a broken hand in New York City, and a broken leg at Lewistown, Mont...
...credit of George Alexander Drew, 59, a handsome lawyer who resigned as premier of Ontario in 1948 to become national leader of the run-down Progressive-Conservative Party. Drew held his own seat in the crashing Tory defeat of 1949, then started chopping away at the party deadwood. He rebuilt the Tory machine around a cadre of enthusiastic young conservatives in and out of Parliament. Drew himself studied French so he could make a personal appeal to Quebec's voters in their own tongue...
...Want to Be First." Actually young Henry II had grown up learning about the auto business as other children learn about baseball or stamp collecting. And, as it turned out, he knew what to do about the failing company. He swept out all the old, tired policies and corporate deadwood, brought in new, young ideas and a new, young team to put them into effect. As a result, the company was on the comeback road when brother Benson Ford joined him at the Rouge plant in 1947-Billy Ford joined his brothers three years later. Henry helped teach them their...