Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Studied the practices of big private motor-fleet operators, applied them to Federal auto fleets for an estimated annual saving of 750,000 gal. of lubricating...
...radical palace shifts following the crisis in empire, there emerged last week five new faces on the board of directors of Ford Motor Co. For the first time, some of the men who had toiled anonymously in the palace sculleries stepped into the throne room. Now they would act as President Henry Ford's war cabinet, would help him rule his fabulous domain...
Charlie No. 2 Takes Over. Instructions are usually given in the crudest of pidgin English. If a plane is known to be down in the bush an officer may order: "Charlie No. 2, you all along go find a motor-car-run-along-sky come down that way." (The number distinguishes this tracker from Charlie...
...Problem. Of the 3,452,800 shares of $5 par value stock of Ford Motor Co., Edsel held 41.65%, his mother held slightly more than 3%. Henry Ford held the remainder, in iron control of the company, which is valued at $718,000,000.* If this valuation were accepted by the Federal Government for tax purposes (though it might be higher or lower) the tax on Edsel's holdings could be roughly computed at 75%, or $225,000,000. The plain fact is that there may be enough liquid assets in the Ford empire to pay even this enormous...
...from a former stomach malady for which an operation was performed 16 months ago. Undulant fever was also present." The New York Daily News picked up the rumor that death was due to cancer, pettishly demanded why this was not formally announced, if true. † Stock of the Ford Motor Co, is of two types, voting and nonvoting. The exact ration is on a closely guarded Ford secret, but comparison can be made to the stock structure of Ford Motor Co. of Canada. Of the 1,588,960 Ford Canada shares outstanding, only 70,000 are voting shares, which...