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...Ecorse police station Mary's father, Edmund de Caussin Jr., 33, a technical writer for the Ford Motor Co., paced the room, calm but increasingly haggard. By morning he had all but given up hope. But De Caussin, was forming an explosive charge of thought...
...small foundation which spent about $1,000,000 a year, but the money went mostly into such pet projects as restoring the Wayside Inn and the birthplace of Noah Webster. After his death and the death of Edsel, however, it was this small foundation that kept the Ford Motor Co. safely in the hands of the Ford family...
...idea was not working out. The staff had to plane back and forth across the continent so much that they began calling the foundation the "Fund for the Advancement of Aviation." To make matters worse, Hoffman infuriated Henry Ford II by inadvertently leaking to the press that the Ford Motor Co. might put some of its Ford stock on the market. Finally, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, Ford told Hoffman: "This is the end, Paul." A month later the trustees also rose against Hoffman, elected Rowan Gaither president and ordered him to move Itching Palms to Madison Avenue...
TRUCK DEAL will turn over Reo Motors Inc., owned by Detroit's Bonn Aluminum & Brass Corp. (1956 sales: $51.6 million), to White Motor Co. (sales: $207.4 million), boost White's share of heavy-duty truck market from...
...Robert S. McNamara, 40, one of the youthful "whiz kids" brought in from the Air Forces after World War II to streamline Ford Motor Co. financial management, became the No. 4 man in the huge Ford empire. McNamara was named group vice president in charge of all car and truck divisions, succeeding ailing Executive Vice President Lewis D. Crusoe, 62, who retired. McNamara, who has been vice president and general manager of the Ford Division since 1955, will rank after Board Chairman Ernest Breech, 60, President Henry Ford II and Del Harder, 65, executive vice president for basic manufacturing...