Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idea. In Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Orville Hubbard ordered his department heads to lock themselves in their offices for half an hour each morning, take a pencil and paper and "jot down any hot ideas . . . That is the way Newton discovered the law of gravity...
...westward movement in the U.S. as the story of man's impact on nature. Frederick J. Turner, writing 50 years later, saw pioneering as the origin of U.S. individualism. A modern U.S. historian, Columbia University's Allan J. Nevins (The Ordeal of the Union), speaking in Dearborn, Mich, to the Society of American Archivists, discussed some added meanings of the modern era in U.S. history-"the emergence of America to the leadership of the Western world." Said Historian Nevins...
...Father Berkemeier ("We ask You to bless our time and our talent that we may always use them as well, as unselfishly, as at this moment"), the volunteers went to work. They had come by bus, car, bicycle and on foot, not only from Flint but from Detroit, Dearborn and other cities. One high-school boy hitchhiked from Cleveland. Lawyers and bankers toiled next to laborers and tellers. C.I.O. worked with A.F.L, and both worked alongside non-unionists. Flint's old (78) Charles Stewart Mott, a multimillionaire director of (and once the largest single stockholder in) General Motors, came...
...companies for as little as 85% of the market price at the time the option is issued. Stock options have persuaded many a top executive to switch jobs. Example: Ford lured Executive Vice President Ernest Breech away from a top G.M. job by offering him an option to buy Dearborn Motors stock. James Nance quit Jlotpoint's presidency (and a promising future in parent G.E.) to take over Packard, with an option to buy 200,000 shares of Packard stock at $4 a share at any time until 1957 (current price of Packard stock: about $5 a share...
Class activities went on as usual. The '28 football team defeated the Yale class champions 13 to 0. Hammer, Dearborn, Hemminger, Wilson, Cashing, Turnoy, Fox, Hodges, Adams, Herman, Allen, Lomasnoy, Heard, Barbee, Van Rensseloar, Ellis, Mulliken, and Long were on the winning team. And Phi Beta Kappa's juniors were Ernest T. Berkeley, Edgar M. Hoover, Hyman Sobell, Martin Tall, Bleiweiss, Jones, and Stamm...