Word: breeches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crossing to the other side of the room, the Lieutenant and I inspected the 30 and 50 caliber machine guns, the three-incher, and the depth charges. To prove his calling, he sauntered up to the big gun, pulled a lever, slapped the breech closed, and joshed, "Wouldn't do to have one of my boy's hands get caught in there." I coughed slightly and agreed, sizing up the six-inch solid steel breech block...
...years, and give top men the right to buy stock in their companies for as little as 85% of the market price at the time the option is issued. Stock options have persuaded many a top executive to switch jobs. Example: Ford lured Executive Vice President Ernest Breech away from a top G.M. job by offering him an option to buy Dearborn Motors stock. James Nance quit Jlotpoint's presidency (and a promising future in parent G.E.) to take over Packard, with an option to buy 200,000 shares of Packard stock at $4 a share at any time...
...Clair on weekends in his 42-ft. cabin cruiser with his wife, the former Edith McNaughton of Detroit, and their two children. Like Henry, Ben has also developed into an able speaker. "When we decided it was time for him to make a speech to the Washington dealers," Ernie Breech recalls, "he stammered and stumbled, and I think he would have fallen on his face if he hadn't been holding on to the podium." Now Ben has plenty of confidence on his feet...
...company, and he quickly persuaded Billy to join him. Billy was a shrewd ally. Recently, before the formal monthly meeting of the Administrative Committee. Billy buttonholed each member separately and asked: "Don't you think it's a good idea to build a Continental?" Most agreed, although Breech thought Ford ought to stick to money-making products. At the meeting, Billy clinched things by saying: "Nearly all of you favor building a Continental, so why don't you approve it?" They...
...outside, Billy put together a null special projects department, designed an experimental model, and for a while carefully kept it hidden, even from his brothers. When he showed it off, he got a shock. Brother Ben's designers had been secretly working on a 1956 Lincoln. Says Ernie Breech: "It practically floored Billy, for Ben's looked better than his. Billy took it well, went back to his shop and worked out a new three-eighths scale model. It looks fine...