Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945) has been aptly characterized as "the Henry ford of Chocolate Makers"; a compatriot and almost exact contemporary of that pioneer automobile magnate, he brought the same inspired version of mass production to the venerable chocolate industry as ford had done to his business—with the difference that Hershey had a social conscience, and ford did not.20 Born into a family of pious Pennsylvania Mennonites, Hershey was apprenticed at age 15 in a Lancaster confectionery stote. |
Joseph Campbell
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| She herself would come against him when he would be engaged at a certain ford with a man "as strong, as victorious, as dexterous, as terrible, as untiring, as noble, as brave, as great" as himself. "I will become an eel," she said, "and I will throw a noose round thy feet in the ford." Cuchulainn exchanged threats with her, and she disappeared into the ground. But the following year, at the foretold foray at the ford, he overcame her, and actually lived to die another day. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Key to their winning evidence, according to explanations by attorneys on the cases reported in the Detroit News, has been evidence gathered from roof tests conducted by Ford's wholly owned European car company, Volvo.31 That manufacturer was making roofs on comparable cars in Sweden that withstood the impacts from collisions that were killing or injuring American passengers. Could a product have been
"designed more safely"? One factor in the successful lawsuits, according to Derek Johnson, was the juries' acceptance that Ford's own Swedish subsidiary was designing roofs more safely. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Before abandoning the market to agticultural specialists like International Harvester and John Deere, Henry ford invented a rear hitch that allowed tracrors to pull plows, disks, scrapers and orher earth-moving equipment across farms. Armed with these marvelous machines, a farmer could work far more land than he had when trailing behind an ox or horse. He could also plow up the pasture to plant more crops.
The cost of the new machines added up to more than many small farms could afford. From 1910 to 1920 the value of farm implements on a typical Kansas farm tripled. |
Mark Schapiro
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| But each of the American "big three" has substantial ties to the European market: ford has its own ford Europe production facilities, and owns the Jaguar line in the UK; General Motors owns the German Opel, the Swedish Saab, and produces its own line of vehicles in the UK under the Vauxhall label; until May 2007, when it was sold to the U.S. firm Cerberus Capital Managment, Chrysler was owned by the German manufacturer Daimler-Benz. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 It was also proven later that ford knew that thousands of people would die with their "exploding Pinto." The executives of ford made a business decision that it was okay for people to die because the company could not afford to lose the millions of dollars by recalling the Pinto. It was a more cost-effective business decision to handle lawsuits from the dead people's families than to recall the vehicle and fix the problem.
Let's fast-forward and look at the front-page story that was later buried about how a pharmaceutical company shipped blood tainted with the HIV virus overseas to be sold. |
Devra Davis
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 Mementos of Hitler decorated Ford's office as well.32 In July 1938, ford got a very special present for his seventy-fifth birthday: the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle—Germany's highest civilian award. He was the first American to receive it. America's Whitney envied the evolving German system and believed that Germany's system of racial hygiene gave the Nazi Reich a competitive advantage: "While we were pussy-footing around, reluctant to admit even that insanity of certain sorts runs in families, the Germans were calling a spade a spade ... |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 In American capitalism, Henry ford saw the tactical advantage in the differentiated form of communal effort and employed it in creating his assembly line system of manufacturing cars. Before ford, a small team of multi-skilled workers would require a week or two to build a single automobile. ford organized his shop so that every worker was responsible for only one specialized job. He stationed a large number of these differentiated workers along a single row, the assembly line, and passed the developing car from one specialist to the next. |
Mark Schapiro
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| But each of the American "big three" has substantial ties to the European market: ford has its own ford Europe production facilities, and owns the Jaguar line in the UK; General Motors owns the German Opel, the Swedish Saab, and produces its own line of vehicles in the UK under the Vauxhall label; until May 2007, when it was sold to the U.S. firm Cerberus Capital Managment, Chrysler was owned by the German manufacturer Daimler-Benz. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And despite all the excuses from ford and other companies, the real reason Toyota is winning is quite simple: Toyota makes better automobiles. I've owned Fords, Chevys, and Toyotas. There's no comparison in terms of quality, reliability and longevity of the vehicle. Toyota is simply engineered to higher quality standards. It has a far superior user interface (Ford still hasn't figured out how to make the turn signals actually stay on when the steering wheel is held off-center), better fuel economy (smart engine design) and better technology. |
Joseph Campbell
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| I will become an eel," she said, "and I will throw a noose round thy feet in the ford." Cuchulainn exchanged threats with her, and she disappeared into the ground. But the following year, at the foretold foray at the ford, he overcame her, and actually lived to die another day.40
A curious, perhaps playful, echo of the symbolism of salvation in a yonder world dimly sounds in the final passage of the Pueblo folk tale of Water Jar boy. "A lot of people were living down inside the spring, women and girls. |
Melody Petersen
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 But ford didn't stop there. He implored the sales team to tell doctors to prescribe the drug in doses far higher than the 1800-milligram maximum the government recommended. Getting physicians to double or nearly triple the dose would help improve the drug's image as a weak, ineffective medicine. At the same time, higher doses would make sales soar.
"I don't want to see a single patient coming off Neurontin before they've been up to at least 4800 milligrams per day," ford ordered, as later recounted by Franklin. "I don't want to hear that safety crap either. Have you tried Neurontin? |
Devra Davis
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| This only happened after John Dingell, William ford, Marilyn Lloyd, Patricia Schroeder, Henry Waxman, and a number of champions of women's health, including Assistant Surgeon General Susan Blumenthal, married to Congressman Ed Markey, and NIH director Bernadine Hardy, demanded such a program be put in place.7 I had visited Arkansas that year, working for Jocelyn Elders, the surgeon general. We learned that in one out of every three clinics mammograms were given by persons who had no training, including office receptionists. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Williams, L., ford, H. H., Ball, K., and Dobson, A. J. (2005). Identifying the energy gap: magnitude and determinants of 5-year weight gain in midage women. Obes. Res 13, 1431-1441.
34. DiPetro, L., Dziura, J., and Blair, S. N. (2004). Estimated change in physical activity level (PAL) and prediction of 5-year weight change in men: The Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. Int. J. Obes. 28, 1541-1547.
35. Williams, P. T. (2007). Maintaining vigorous activity attenuates 7-yr weight gain in 8340 runners. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 39, 801-809.
36. Williamson, D. R., Kahn, H. S., Remington, P. L. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Standing, from left to right: Larry ford, Ken Olum, and the author. (Courtesy of Delia Schwartz-Perlov) head while kneeling in front of the antigravity stone. The apple comes from the hand of the thesis advisor and may then be eaten by the "inauguree."
By the time the Institute of Cosmology was established, Babson was long since dead and his Gravity Research Foundation had evolved into a respectable institution giving research grants on gravitation. Nobody really expected that Tufts cosmologists would work on antigravity, but strangely enough—they do. |
Joseph Campbell
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| But the following year, at the foretold foray at the ford, he overcame her, and actually lived to die another day.40
A curious, perhaps playful, echo of the symbolism of salvation in a yonder world dimly sounds in the final passage of the Pueblo folk tale of Water Jar boy. "A lot of people were living down inside the spring, women and girls. They all ran to the boy and put their arms around him because they were glad their child had come to their house. Thus the boy found his father
40 "Tain b6 Regamna," edited by Stokes and Windisch, Irische Texte (zweite Serie, Heft. 2; Leipzig, 1887), pp. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Sisters ford Depuffing Action Eye Gel ($26 for 0.5 ounce) attempts to send under-eye bags packing, and is accompanied by a very cute description that makes it seem like a cure-all for puffy eyes. Not to burst anyone's bubble, but your puffiness won't recede one bit with this simple formulation that contains nothing unique or special. Given that the primary sources of puffiness and bags around the eye have to do with fat pads, muscles, and edema (swelling), there just isn't a cosmetic that can affect those biological causes. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Suppose all ford and General Motors automobiles with excellent safety and service records were removed from the marketplace, leaving an inventory of low-end cars with bad safety and service rankings. Eventually, when each company introduced a new automobile at a significantly higher price, the makers could state the prices are warranted. Consumers could choose between a new, higher priced vehicle (with an unproven safety and service record) or they could purchase cars with known inferiorities. (The absence of Dodge, Toyota, Nissan, etc. from the American marketplace might also be noted. |
Devra Davis
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| In July 1938, ford got a very special present for his seventy-fifth birthday: the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle—Germany's highest civilian award. He was the first American to receive it. America's Whitney envied the evolving German system and believed that Germany's system of racial hygiene gave the Nazi Reich a competitive advantage: "While we were pussy-footing around, reluctant to admit even that insanity of certain sorts runs in families, the Germans were calling a spade a spade ... by this action Germany is going to make herself a stronger nation. |
| General Motor Company and ford do enormous businesses [sic] here through their subsidiaries and take no profits out. I mention these facts because they complicate things and add to war dangers.17
As Ethyl's medical director, Kehoe was responsible for monitoring the toxic exposures of the company's workers around the world, including those in Germany. His archived papers at the University of Cincinnati contain boxes of reports from plants making leaded gasoline in New Zealand, France and Argentina, along with Germany, Japan, Italy and other foreign facilities. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Li Li, Earl S. ford, and Simin Liu. "Increased Consumption of Refined Carbohydrates and the Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes in the United States: An Ecologic Assessment." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 79 (2004): 774-79.
Gutkowski, Shirley. "Ahhhhh . . . Those Bubbles." http://rdh.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display. cfm?Sectionfiltered=Archives&Subsectionfiltered=Display&ARTICLE_ID=160511&KEYWORD= bubbles&x=y.
Havel, Peter J. "Update on Adipocyte Hormones: Regulation of Energy Balance and Carbohydrate/Lipid Metabolism." Diabetes 53, no. IS (2004): S143-51.
Havel, Peter J. et al. |
Ron Garner
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 Farben in alliance with Dupont, Standard Oil, and ford.
The Food and Drug Administration, or fda, was formed in 1906 to establish credibility and keep public opinion positive toward the use of pharmaceuticals. It was set up to be an independent government organization whose purpose was to test all foods and drugs, and remove from the market any products it considered to be unsafe. It was given the power to approve drugs and natural supplements as either safe or unsafe.
At that time, all medical schools in America taught the use of only natural remedies for healing. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 As physicist Kenneth W. ford wrote, "By most measures, atoms are small. Yet to some scientists, they are gargantuan. These scientists—nuclear and particle physicists—are concerned with what goes on in bits of space much smaller than atoms, smaller even than the tiny nuclei that sit at the centers of atoms. We call this world the subatomic world."n
An atom, to use the scientific definition, is a unit of matter that has a central, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a system of electrons. It is very small, about 10"8 centimeters. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Cuchulainn commanded Conchobar's charioteer to drive him past the distant "Look-out ford," and they came presently to a remote fortress, the Dun of the Sons of Nechtan, where he cut off the heads of the defenders. He fastened the heads to the sides of the car. On the road back he jumped to the ground and "by sheer running and mere speed" captured two stags of the grandest bulk. With two stones he knocked out of the air two dozen flying swans. And with thongs and other gear he tethered all, both the beasts and the birds, to the chariot. |
Mark Lynas
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 After meticulous investigation, the three scientists - Jennifer Vezina, Brian Jones and Derek ford of the University of Alberta's Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department - ruled out land uplift and concluded that sea levels during the previous Eemian interglacial period were many metres higher than they are now.
The Canadian scientists' conclusion chimed with other studies from around the world, which have also suggested that sea levels were 5-6 metres above present during the Eemian, 125,000 years ago. |
Devra Davis
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| Leading senators and governors, along with reformers such as Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and business leaders like Henry ford, all championed the idea that society's leaders were equipped to decide who merited the chance to pass their genes on to the future.24 An ardent American advocate of government action against the feebleminded was Leon Whitney, executive secretary of the American Eugenics Society. In 1934 he published The Case for Sterilization, contending that the state was obliged "to weed out defective persons from society, just as a farmer would clear a field. |
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