Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II has called for creation of a highly visible and vocal federal planning body?underscoring Nobel Laureate Leontief's prediction that the U.S. will adopt planning "not because some wild radicals demand it but because businessmen will demand it to keep the system from sputtering to a halt." Ford's idea is that a planning organization should examine "cost-effectiveness and set timetables. It should take a look at population growth; usages of raw materials and their
...grinned as I grimaced at the inevitable clumsiness of taking people's pictures. Two waist-high kids came over to look at the bicycle. One spoke French for both of them, and told me about his father's bike that had a "pa-pa-put" motor on it so he never had to pedal except to get started. He asked me about the name engraved on the frame of the bike, and laughed when I said the American r's in "Sears, Roebuck...
...Gulf Oil Company, which is rumored to be financing a separatist guerilla movement there. American Oil Company has just opened a field south of Luanda with cooperation from Shell. On the rooftop patio of a downtown Luanda hotel, I met an American tractor demonstrator and salesman from the Ford Motor Company whose job was to town-hop in the interior and set up Ford's market. He was very proud of Luanda's Ford dealership, Robert Hudson Ford, and their $20 million parts warehouse. His impression of the countryside was that "parts of it are very scenic, but most only...
...feuds and a sensational international bribery scandal. When Wallace W. Booth was first offered the chief executive's job at United Brands Co. two months ago, he promptly declined. Booth did not feel that his experience suited him for running a food company. During 20 years with Ford Motor Co., he played a major role in setting up the company's financial control system, became a director and eventually headed Ford's Australian subsidiary. In 1968 Booth joined the Rockwell International Corp., a Pittsburgh-based company that manufactures such durable goods as missiles and other space vehicles...
...before they are ready. Figuring that preemies miss the security of the womb, Dr. Louis Gluck of San Diego's University Hospital has designed a tiny, heated water bed to simulate the warmth and buoyant pulsations of the baby's uterine environment. He also attached a tiny motor that provides motion similar to what the fetus experienced when the mother's heart beat and as she walked about. The preemie's sense of security is further heightened by the recorded sound of a pregnant mother's heartbeat piped into the artificial womb. Gluck hopes that...