Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. DC-6 bearing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appeared over Don Muang Airport one afternoon last week, Thailand's Prime Minister Pibulsonggram was still fretfully edging his way through Bangkok traffic in his Ford Thunderbird. Informed by the airport tower, the pilot of the Dulles plane circled for seven minutes until the Prime Minister thundered onto the field. Bangkok was a courtesy call for Dulles: there were no critical problems to be ironed out. After he departed the next day (Pibulsonggram and the Thunderbird were late for the goodbye) only three of the eight Thai...
...brooked no quibble. "The era in which [my theory] could be disputed is over, and no one today can doubt that we understand the origin of cancer cells." There were disputers nonetheless. One of them Copenhagen's Dr. Jorgen Kieler, told a leukemia conference at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit: "This concept cannot be accepted without reservations." Dr. Kieler showed that under certain conditions leukemic cells "breathed" at the same rate as normal cells. This contradicts Warburg's belief that the respiration of all cancer cells has been irreversibly damaged...
STOCK PLAN for Chrysler's salaried employees will be tied to company profits in relation to net sales. The plan, which is otherwise similar to those at General Motors and Ford, calls for Chrysler to contribute a minimum of 40? for every $1 invested by salaried workers when net earnings are below 5% of net sales. If profits go over 7%, the company's contribution will increase to 60 cents...
...U.A.W. has also set up a well-oiled working arrangement with General Motors and Ford. In the complex, highly automated auto industry, new machinery, new methods and new models force automakers into constant time studies, constant revisions of job standards. But there is little friction because G.M. and Ford agree wholeheartedly with the U.A.W. that time study is not an exact science, but a starting point for bargaining about base pay and incentives...
Lemmon finally got the role by accident, when, wandering onto the wrong stage, he met Jack Ford, the director. Two months later Ford gave Lemmon the part...