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...brain, and deep breathing. However, Speech Therapist Harrington (no M.D. but a Ph.D. from the State University of Iowa) noted the distress that besets so many C.P. victims when they try to talk. It comes, he reasoned, from the fact that breathing control is one of the motor centers most often and severely affected. This has an especially bad effect on speech. "After all," asks Harrington, "how much can you say on half a breath?" Bad speech makes patients nervous and selfconscious, so they avoid social contacts, slip into a vicious circle of embarrassment and withdrawal...
...their G.A.W. victory the seamen could give much of the credit to the breakthrough at Ford Motor Co. by Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. As for the U.A.W. itself, it wasted no time in pressing on to the next automaker with an expiring contract: American Motors...
...What I do know is that I had contemplated this move for two or three years because of increasing outside activities." Rebellious Captive. Other retiring directors had even less to say. For the record, Stanton Griffis, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Spain, was in Paris. Investment Banker Jansen Noyes and Motor Millionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr. were "out of town." Financier William M. Greve, a man who temporarily gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told...
...than U.S. industry, which already uses about 80 billion gallons daily, will siphon off 200 billion gallons daily (exclusive of water power) by 1975. Whatever the product, the choice of any plant site often depends on how much fresh water is available. After World War II, for example, General Motors wanted to take over a Lima (Ohio) plant that it had operated for the Government, but backed out because it could not get a guarantee of future water supplies. Ford Motor Co. built a huge new plant at Walton Hills, outside Cleveland, but only after the city agreed to extend...
...plus a pension plan that truckers would finance at 10? an hour. Unexpressed was the union's plan to negotiate a master agreement to cover all trucking in the West. After three months of fruitless negotiations, the teamsters struck three big truckers (Pacific Intermountain Express, Consolidated Freightways, Pacific Motor Trucking...