Word: motor
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...begun, oddly enough, by Henry Ford I. Although he was an outspoken anti-Semite, the original Ford did hire more Negroes than any other industrialist of his day, and not only for menial jobs. As early as 1919, Whitney Young's father earned $300 a month as a Ford Motor electrical engineer and was one of the best-paid blacks in the U.S. Henry Ford II worked under a black foreman while doing a stint in the engine department between college terms...
...widely debated actions, including aid to community-organizing projects among the poor, despite complaints from some of his company's stockholders that such programs are "revolutionary." The foundation, which owns 24.5% of the company's stock but is a completely independent body, has been an embarrassment to some Ford Motor executives, who say only half-jokingly that one organization or the other ought to change its name. Undeterred, Henry Ford has plunged into other controversies. Last December he renewed a call for mandatory auto inspection in all states, maintaining that it is necessary not only for safety but also...
Detroiters sometimes liken the atmosphere in Ford Motor's executive suite to a Byzantine court. The company now has not one but three presidents: Lee lacocca, Robert Stevenson and Robert Hampson. The rumor mill turns largely on which one seems to be most in the chairman's favor at the moment. Whoever it is certainly does not call Ford "Henry"; no employee dares to. lacocca, a highly aggressive and voluble man, seems to have the lead now. He is one of the few executives who will tell Ford when he thinks the chairman is wrong. Even so, visitors to lacocca...
...chairman of the 1,200-unit chain of Holiday Inns. Having opened its first European inn two years ago at Leiden, The Netherlands, the company is building 15 more in Belgium, England, Austria, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg; it is also drawing plans for an additional 47. Esso Motor Hotels, a subsidiary of Jersey Standard, already has 41 outlets in Europe and expects to have 70 soon...
...supply of air begins to deplete, a cascade of falling pitches and fading sounds engulfs the listener in a musical-mystical doomsday. "It sounds," says Kagel, "as if the organ were exhaling her soul." For Ligeti's equally iconoclastic Etude No. 1, Zacher hooked a vacuum-cleaner motor to the organ pipes to achieve a tiny flow of air and precisely the "pale, unearthly and strange" tone color specified by the composer...