Robson Golightly Green was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and baptised in Bethel Chapel, ( Ford's View ), and named in Northeast tradition as first son after family surnames: Robson is his grandmother's maiden surname, while Golightly is after the surname of his maternal grandmother, Cissie Golightly (* born 1906 in Seghill, Northumberland ), daughter of William Golightly, born 1874 in Felling, a miner and a famous trade union leader in the 1920s.

Ford's paternal grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of Irish Catholic and German descent, respectively.

Ford's controversial personnel director, Harry Bennett, built the famous " Pagoda House " on West River in 1939.

He is generally credited with rescuing the company during and after World War II via a wide-reaching regime change ( removing Harry Bennett from operational control of the company and allowing the Whiz Kids to bring operations research to Ford's operations management ).

The ' Old Fox ' Harry Firth was the head of the HDT and would prove to be just as much as a thorn in Ford's side as he had been the founding father for Ford's Bathurst-bred Cortina / Falcon program.

While they were posing, men from Ford's Service Department, an internal security force under the direction of Harry Bennett, came from behind and began to beat them.

Three production prototype cars were shown in 2003 as part of Ford's centenary, and delivery of the production Ford GT began in the fall of 2004.

However, the designs, based on the HQ and updated HJ, HX and HZ models from the 1970s were less competitive than similar models in Ford's lineup.

The car was the M2B designed by Robin Herd but the programme was hampered by a poor choice of engines: a 3. 0 litre version of Ford's Indianapolis 500 engine and a Serenissima V8 were used, the latter scoring the team's first point in Britain, but both were underpowered and unreliable.

They were supervised by Ford's overseer Chapin, who saved Northup from a lynching after he fought with Tibeats.

Four systems were developed, Rohr's ROMAG, LTV's AirTrans, Ford's APT and Otis Elevator's hovercraft design.

In the age of mass production, this caused shipping and trade problems in that shipping systems were unable to transport huge volumes of finished automobiles ( in Henry Ford's case ) without causing damage, and also government policies imposed trade barriers on finished units.

Mantle and former teammate Whitey Ford were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame together in 1974, Mantle's first year of eligibility, Ford's second.

Barry Fitzgerald and Arthur Shields were also brothers in real life, and Francis Ford was John Ford's elder brother.

In 1981, Ford's sales were falling.

After President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at John T. Ford's Theatre, the 54th Congress passed legislation compensating those who were injured in the theater.

Ford's political advisors were clamouring for a change.

Many ( if not most ) of the interior, chassis, suspension, and drivetrain components were derived from those used on Ford's Falcon and Fairlane.

Schwartz said that the car was no more fire-prone than other cars of the time, that its fatality rates were lower than comparably sized imported automobiles, and that the supposed " smoking gun " document that plaintiffs said demonstrated Ford's callousness in designing the Pinto was actually a document based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulations about the value of a human life — rather than a document containing an assessment of Ford's potential tort liability.

In his video for " Who's Cheatin ' Who " he was behind the wheel of a " Big Foot " Ford F-150 pickup truck, and Ford's five NASCAR vehicles ( at the time ) were prominently featured.

Nonetheless, Ford's work during the early 1990s was primarily behind the scenes ; his contributions to Gucci were overshadowed by those of Mello, who was the company's public face.

In 1993, Chrysler launched the Jeep Grand Cherokee as a competitor for Ford's Explorer, and as a result, many buyers who went into the Jeep-Eagle showrooms were either interested in buying the Grand Cherokee, or got distracted from the Eagle cars by the more popular Jeep vehicles.

While Ford's articles were denounced by the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ), the articles explicitly condemned pogroms and violence against Gays ( Volume 4, Chapter 80 ), but blamed the Jews for provoking incidents of mass violence.

During the trial, the editor of Ford's " Own Page ," William Cameron, testified that Ford had nothing to do with the editorials even though they were under his byline.

Though Frazee was well respected in Boston, Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent ran a series of articles purporting to expose how Jews were destroying America, and among these were articles lambasting Frazee, saying that with his purchase of the Red Sox " another club was placed under the smothering influences of the ' chosen race.

It was the best-specified Cortina produced to date and 30, 000 were sold, which also made it Ford's best-selling special edition model.

Another of the articles, " Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve System " was a reflection of Ford's suspicion of the Federal Reserve System and its proponent, Paul Warburg.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has stated that the issue significantly hurt Gerald Ford's prospects in the 1976 Presidential election.

Radio Islam's online library contains several complete works, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( which Encyclopædia Britannica describes as a " fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century "), Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Henry Ford's The International Jew, Arthur Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe ( a book whose thesis has been disproven through the field of genetics ), Israel Shahak's Jewish History, Jewish Religion, and Roger Garaudy's The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics ( which a French court found guilty of Holocaust denial and racial defamation ).

Some suggested that Rob Ford's mayoral victory in November 2010 had paved the way for the federal Conservatives ' successes in Toronto, with right-of-centre politicians garnering significant support from immigrants that traditionally supported the Liberals.

The cost per vehicle trended upwards as the war continued from the price under the first contract from Willys at US $ 648. 74 ( Ford's was $ 782. 59 per unit ).

Several scenes in the film directly recall Ford's film, most notably Ali's entrance at the well and the composition of many of the desert scenes and the dramatic exit from Wadi Rum.

Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996.

John Ford's use of Monument Valley as an expressive landscape in his films from Stagecoach ( 1939 ) to Cheyenne Autumn ( 1965 ) " present us with a mythic vision of the plains and deserts of the American West, embodied most memorably in Monument Valley, with its buttes and mesas that tower above the men on horseback, whether they be settlers, soldiers, or Native Americans ".

The scene featured Ford's character reprimanding Elliott for his behavior in science class and warning of the dangers of underage drinking ; he is then taken aback as Elliott's chair rises from the floor, while E. T.

While Ford's original cut of the film has not survived, a " pre-release " cut – dating from a few months after the preview screening – survives with some of Ford's additional footage and alternative score intact.

Lone Starr's costume is intentionally misplaced, resembling a Colonial Warrior from Battlestar Galactica and Ford's Indiana Jones costume ( he is seen wearing a cowboy hat in his first scene, which is set aside and not seen for the remainder of the film ) rather than that of Han Solo or Luke Skywalker.

A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, John M. Ford's The Final Reflection, Margaret Wander Bonanno's Strangers from the Sky ( which adopts the conceit that it is book from the future by an author called Gen Jaramet-Sauner ), and J. R. Rasmussen's " Research " in the anthology Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II.

Perry attended Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, where he played for coach Danny Ford's Clemson Tigers football team from 1981 to 1984.

It was as a result of Ford's work, as well as his own, that Dobzhansky changed the emphasis in the third edition of his famous text from drift to selection.

Besides housing Ford's grocery and the saddle shop, the Old Mill was the Greenville Post Office from 1823 until the early 1940s when it was relocated to H. Miller's house at the corner of East First street and Hwy 150.

Today, the Station stands just two-doors from one of the city's oldest home ( rebuilt in 1908 ), which still boasts some of John B. Ford's original plate glass works.

President Gerald Ford's golden retriever Liberty was purchased in 1974 from Avis Friberg who lived in the town.

The Ford Model T ( colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, T ‑ Model Ford, ' Model T Ford ', or T ) is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from September 1908 to October 1927.

Autoblog went so far as to call the Taurus " the biggest fall from grace in automotive history " and even blamed Ford's current financial problems on its failure to keep the Taurus competitive, focusing too unilaterally on trucks and SUVs.

But Alan Mulally, Ford's new CEO named in late 2006, wanted to revive the Taurus, saying in an interview with the Associated Press that he was baffled by the Taurus's discontinuation and believed it a mistake, adding that the Five Hundred should have been named " Taurus " from the beginning.

Mainly residing in London from 1908, Lewis published his first work ( accounts of his travels in Brittany ) in Ford Madox Ford's The English Review in 1909.