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Father Doing Well. They found Paula, a chunky, black-haired woman, sprawled on the only bed, her head thrust back in agony. While Dr. Martin examined her for signs of toxemia or a breech (butt-or feetfirst) delivery, the rest of the team spread newspapers over the furniture and set up equipment in the tiny kitchen. As they worked, Benjamin, the father, hovered anxiously in the background. A faulty electric fan started a fire, which Benjamin hastily...
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...
...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...