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...Clifford Hood, former president of U.S. Steel, $1,362,000; former General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner, $1,710,000; Chairman W. R. Stephens of the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co., $2,532,000; Continental Oil Chairman L. F. McCollum, $2,578,800; former Ford Motor Chairman Ernest Breech...
...Breech, who had come to Ford from G.M. after the Whiz Kids arrived. In 1948, after two busy years with Ford, Thornton quit to take a job with eccentric Industrialist Howard Hughes, who made him vice president and general manager of Hughes Aircraft. Thornton convinced Hughes that not enough companies were working full time on developing the advanced weapons technology the nation was sure to need. He re organized Hughes Aircraft, building its sales from $1,500,000 to $200 million in five years, and prepared it to be practically the first company to get into missile work. But Hughes...
...Breech Deliveries. In Aberdeen, the excitement at St. Luke's Hospital was almost as great as in Venezuela, when Mrs. Andrew Fischer delivered her four girls and a boy. The 30-year-old wife of a $76-a-week grocery shipping clerk, Mrs. Fischer had learned from an X ray a scant three days in advance that quints were on the way. Then when her time came, there were complications. Four of the five infants were breech deliveries; the other emerged head first. Also six-to eight-weeks premature, Mrs. Fischer's brood arrived in 90 minutes, weighed...
...Hill. Until World War II contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech...
...contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought the Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II, "the Whiz Kids," and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech...