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Shooting Gallery. It was also Ford's fear of robbers and kidnapers, says Bennett, plus his humane desire to rehabilitate crooks, that led the company to employ thousands of former criminals. Bennett insists he did not originate the policy, but he perfected it, made the underworld his ally, so that it would tell him of any plots against Ford or the company. He gave a Ford agency to Chester La Mare, reputed boss of Detroit's underworld, and turned over the plant's fruit concession to him. When a Detroit child was kidnaped, Ford...
...freshman opener. He may or may not use one team in each of the four quarters (as has been suggested), but all of the men, according to plans, will get into the game. At the same time, the rest of the squad, tentatively the "B" team, will employ much the same system in a game at Noble and Greenough...
...main bulwark of the U.S. was their air force . . . it was in the United States that very long-range bombers first were built. No doubt the Americans had peace for the present but the United States could only regard the peace in the light of a truce, and . . . employ it in preparations for war . . . But when a war of annihilation is impending over a state, the more wise, more resolute and more devoted men always find themselves hampered by the indolent and cowardly mass of money worshippers, of the feeble, and of the thoughtless who wish merely . . . to live...
...Family. Together the Longoria brothers-Chito, Federico, Shelby, Eduardo, Alfredo-control 69 companies, employ 11,000 workers and gross more than $50 million a year. The brothers got a running start on their empire-building from their father Octaviano Longoria, who died in 1931, leaving his sons a tidy business in cotton, cattle, soap and cottonseed...
...Target. Josten's bulletin has 600 subscribers in 42 countries (rate, with full reproduction rights, is $22.40 a year) ; it brings him a modest living and enables him and his wife to employ three full-time staffers. They work by reading between the lines of Czech "official" news, monitoring Prague broadcasts, winnowing the news from their informers. In turn, the informers pass the bulletin into Czechoslovakia where each copy, read behind locked doors, passes through scores of hands. As a result, when nine Czech airmen flew a passenger-filled airliner out of Prague in a sensational escape, a girl...