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...Assembly Line In 1908 Henry Ford's company was turning out a car every 12 hours. Stockholders were impressed, but Ford wanted more and began experimenting with production-line techniques, moving parts along while each worker performed one task. In 1913 his new plant opened and began producing a Model T every 93 min.; by 1925 that was down to 15 sec. The productivity gains allowed Ford to turn a rich man's plaything into a mass product. By paying $5 an hour, he gave workers enough cash to drive...
Franklin L. Ford, a former dean of the Faculty who spent nearly 40 years as a prominent member of the history department, died on Sunday, August 31, at a retirement home in Lexington, Mass., following complications from a stroke...
During his tenure as dean, from 1962 to 1970, Ford navigated Harvard through tumultuous times, including the student takeover of University Hall, with his signature composure and tact...
...That's a lot of folks around here." RUSSELL WOODS, a West Virginia resident, on the description of a suspected sniper who killed three people in the Charleston area. Police said they were looking for a man who drives a Ford F-150 pickup truck...
...done it, and so can I.'" And her agents think she has done something unique, as Estee Lauder is a prestige brand--that is, one that can be bought only at high-end department stores and not the corner Wal-Mart. Similarly, Gucci's Ford, who is widely praised for his seeming inattention to the color of a model's skin, has signed Indian model Ujjwala Raut to represent Yves Saint Laurent cosmetics, and Lancome has hired Japanese-German-British Devon Aoki and Nigerian-born Oluchi...