Word: motor
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...Bureau's usefulness as an employment agency is not the only interface between the FBI and the American corporate structure. FBI agents often find lucrative jobs with corporations after leaving the Bureau. Turner reports that certain corporations--such as Sears-Roebuck and the Ford Motor Co.--were know to all agents in the Bureau as good places to apply. Ford employs nearly 30 agents in its central management, dozens more in subsidiaries (not surprisingly, Ford sponsored "The FBI" during its early years on television). The Society of Former Agents of the FBI, an independent alumni organization set up to keep...
Elixir Mixer. Many automotive engineers have long dismissed oil additives like STP, Bardahl and Wynn's as all but useless in normal engines. Most motor oils today are fortified with so many acid neutralizers, detergents and thickeners that any additives can thwart their carefully calculated effects...
...Sound Barriers. Still, even the ingenious Caccavari can prescribe nothing but new equipment for the biggest group of noisemakers: motor vehicles. To date, environmental control officers have ticketed 400 vehicles-most of them heavy trucks-for exceeding legal sound barriers of 78 decibels for a car, 84 for a motorcycle and 90 for a truck. The drivers can scarcely believe their ears when they are haled to the curb for a summons. "But officer, I wasn't going too fast," pleaded one truck driver. "No, but you were going too loud," said the cop. Another trucker argued: "Our firm...
Make-work and Macaroni. The Viet Nam buildup left the Seventh with an inexperienced cadre and second-class equipment. Lack of money meant less field training and more make-work. "They send me to the motor pool every day and tell me to paint that truck," complains a G.I. in Kaiserslautern. "The next day they tell me to chip the paint off, and then I paint it again." Insists an armored division lieutenant: "There's just so much you can do to fix a tank." Scorning the Army as "the Green Machine," the Seventh's soldiers adopted...
...that many well-meaning people (especially if they have never worked in a factory) may believe him. Swanson portrays the lot of the white American worker as that of endless drudgery rewarded by measely wages. It may come as a surprise to him to know that the average Ford Motor Co. worker (not executive) earns $16,000 a year. Even with inflation, $16,000 permits a family man to look forward to a lot more than merely getting drunk on weekends. As a matter of fact, the vivid proof of the growing well-being and prosperity of the average worker...