Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford's hand was forced by a stock prospectus issued by the Ford Foundation, which plans to sell another 2,000,000 shares of Ford stock (worth some $155 million) in order to diversify its holdings. Included in a list of company products was a footnote on Edsel: "Introduced in September 1957 and discontinued in November 1959." Once that got out, Ford had to speak out, though it had planned to hold off until all Edsels in dealers' inventories were sold. It really did not make much difference. As of last week, only about...
...talent agency, a record-pressing plant, and a production company named Clarkfeld.) Faced with the ABC ultimatum, Clark decided to "divest" himself of his interests in various music firms (he did not specify how). His TV producer and partner in Swan Records, Tony Mammarella, decided to quit ABC in order to stay with the Clark company...
...that the companies' offer is not likely to be materially raised. If not accepted by the union leadership, the Taft-Hartley law requires submitting management's final offer to a secret-ballot membership vote between Jan. 5 and Jan. 26. After that, the union leadership could still order the men out on strike again, whether the vote was favorable...
...patent law and, in this volume, theorist on the use and abuse of clothes. Writes Langner, with the fervor of a textile magnate enjoying a martini after a board meeting: If it were not for the invention of clothes, "there would be precious little religion, government, society, law and order, [or] morals...
...entirely that cops would look just like bookies-tattoos could take care of that. The author is a disciple of the late Psychologist Alfred Adler, inventor of the universal inferiority complex. It is Langner's extrapolation of the master's work that man clothes himself in order to feel superior-to the beasts by hiding his apparatus for procreation and excretion, and to other men by putting...