Word: motorizer
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...bias toward innovators and company founders and against managers kept several famous names off the list--not only Sloan, whose organizational and management skills helped consolidate several disparate automakers into General Motors, but also a number of chief executives best known for their ability to manage large enterprises and increase shareholder value. It should be remembered that Ford Motor Co. was foundering when Henry Ford died, and it was left to his grandson Henry Ford II to revive the company after World War II with the help of a group of button-down managers, the "Whiz Kids," including Robert McNamara...
...eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable. In 1905, when there were 50 start-up companies a year trying to get into the auto business, his backers at the new Ford Motor Co. were insisting that the best way to maximize profits was to build a car for the rich...
Located in the heart of Kenmore Square, and only 500 feet away from the mouth of the daunting Green Monster, the colossal Citgo sign brings us back to the dawning age of the motor vehicle and represents one of the oldest art deco inspired ad campaigns in the United States. Measuring 60 square feet in area, the garish pulsating advertisement sits in the Boston skyline where it is admired up to 20 miles away. "It's the God of B.U.!" exclaims an exuberant B.U. sophomore. "It's like what we are known for. I'm proud to call it mine...
...later edit the writings of the Lubavitcher rebbe; and on the "dead parents and overbearing parents...the fears of emptiness and the hopes of bounty" that inform such God-wrestling. So generous and natural a memoirist is Dubner, however, that awareness of his book's formidable double motor recedes in our pleasure at his recollections...
...always use handicap access elevators, buttons and conveniences. Or, just buy a Rascal motor-scooter for Yard transport...