Named after Chief Pontiac, the city was best known throughout its history for its General Motors automobile manufacturing plants including Fisher Body, Pontiac East Assembly ( aka.

Charles and William Fisher, co-founders of the Fisher Body Company that later became a division of General Motors, built large summer homes at the north end of Parke Lane ( one remains today ).

Ewing was home to the Inland Fisher Guide Plant, a plant that opened in 1938 for the Ternstedt division of GM's Fisher Body unit.

However, between 1923 and 1987 the General Motors and Fisher Body automobile assembly plants were far and away the city's major employer in terms of production, payroll and employees.

* Fisher Body, now part of General Motors, had its origin here in the late 19th century.

In 1956, General Motors built a large Fisher Body stamping plant in Ontario and on June 25, 1958, the residents voted to incorporate Ontario into a village.

It was home to the Fleetwood Metal Body company, an automobile coachbuilder purchased by Fisher Body and integrated into General Motors in 1931.

Travis played an active role in the Flint Sit-Down Strike, aided by some veteran CP autoworkers inside Fisher Body Plant # 1 – but also by other radical workers, some belonging to Trotskyist parties, the Socialist Party or the IWW.

Assembled bodies arrived from Fisher Body and awaited assembly in the off-line area.

During his presidency from 1916 – 1920, Durant brought the Chevrolet product line, as well as Fisher Body and Frigidaire into General Motors.

Aside from the " marketing costs " of using outside suppliers and the agency costs of central direction inside the firm, whether to put Fisher Body inside or outside of General Motors would have been a matter of indifference.

* Fisher Body Plant 21, 1921

The wagons ' bodies weren't made by Fisher Body, but were instead farmed out to Iona Manufacturing Company of Iona, Michigan.

* The Fisher Body Division of General Motors creates an Aircraft Division.

Unlike many builders of luxury cars, who sold bare chassis to be clothed by outside coachbuilding firms, General Motors had purchased the coachbuilders Fleetwood Metal Body and Fisher Body to keep all the business in-house.

By the 1980s however, that autonomy ( also including Fisher Body division producing the car bodies, and GM Assembly division building them ) were seen as representing a dated business model that had led to needless large scale redundancy, infighting by the divisions, and a bloated internal bureaucracy.

Combining the nameplate divisions, Fisher Body, and GM Assembly into two groups, C-P-C ( Chevrolet, Pontiac, Canada ) to build small cars and B-O-C ( Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac ) to build large cars, the effort was subsequently criticized for creating chaos within the company.

Fisher Body engineers and draftsmen moved in with the Vega personnel.

Fisher, whose automotive career began with coachbuilder Fisher Body, was impressed with Earl's designs and methods, including the use of modeling clay to develop the forms of his designs.

The game is set in the fall of 2004, as the player takes on the role of Sam Fisher, a retired Navy SEAL called back to duty by the American National Security Agency, or the NSA, to work with a secret division dubbed " Third Echelon ", a top-secret sub-branch within the various intelligence branches of the National Security Agency.

Following the merger of Fisher Scientific with Thermo Electron Corporation in November 2006, Oxoid Ltd ( along with Remel Inc ) became a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

On January 13, 1865, Terry sent a division of United States Colored Troops to hold off Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg to the north of Fort Fisher.

Two of Mandel's friends, Jim Fisher and Jim Stahl, signed an agreement with the Fox Corporation's then newly-created television division in 1989.

Lawrence P. Fisher, general manager of the Cadillac division, was visiting Cadillac dealers and distributors around the country, including Lee.

GM's Fisher Body division was also located at Willow Run, and built bodies for the Chevrolet models assembled there.

He commanded the screw frigate in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1864-65, and a division of Admiral Porter's Squadron at the two battles of Fort Fisher in December 1864 and January 1865.

The division was created in 1949 and is named for Andrew Fisher, three times Prime Minister of Australia.

The bulk of corps remained in the Petersburg trenches, but Adelbert Ames ' second division took part in both Benjamin Butler's initial unsuccessful assault on Fort Fisher in December 1864 and the successful attack the following January.

Currently, the division is headed by Scott Fisher, a pioneer in virtual reality research, with help from Jen Stein, a media and communications scholar and Marientina Gotsis, a new media artist and lab manager for the division.

Fisher Body is an automobile coachbuilder founded by the Fisher brothers in 1908 in Detroit, Michigan ; it is now an operating division of General Motors Company.

The Fisher company purchased Fleetwood Metal Body in 1925, and in 1926 was integrated entirely as an in-house coachbuilding division of General Motors.

Gary Fisher Bicycles, then a stand alone firm, now a division of Trek Bicycles, became the first of the major manufactures to offer a line of 29 " bikes.

It restarted production for GM's Fisher Body division, later becoming the Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac factory.

Fisher understood that female preference for long tails may be passed on genetically, in conjunction with genes for the long tail itself.

According to the Internet Movie Database, Fisher had said that her costumes in the previous two films had been so long that viewers could not tell " she was a woman ", resulting in the skimpy outfit for Return of the Jedi.

Despite his fame and eloquence, it was not long before Fisher was in conflict with the new king, his former pupil, Henry VIII.

A long letter exists, written from the Tower by Fisher to Thomas Cromwell, speaking of the severity of his conditions of imprisonment.

On the trade deadline long time Laker Derek Fisher along with a first round draft pick were traded to the Houston Rockets for Jordan Hill.

Fisher proposed building a circular track three to five miles ( 8 km ) long with smooth 100 – 150 ft wide surfaces.

They take Nikoladze and the Ark key elsewhere, and Fisher is left to be executed-luckily, Lambert organizes for a five-seconds long blackout, allowing Fisher to escape and locate Nikoladze, who is still trying to negotiate the Ark for his freedom: in order to prevent this from happening, Fisher assassinates Nikoladze, the only person capable of activating the Ark, thus preventing the Information Crisis from escalating.

* Brenda Fisher ( b 1927 ), cross-Channel and long distance swimmer

Not long after his arrival, he found himself swearing in a Labor cabinet under Andrew Fisher, so the Labor Party's disapproval of his vice-regal style became an important issue.

Midshipman ( later Admiral ) A. H. Gordon Moore reported, Fisher was a very exacting master and I had at times long and arduous duties, long hours at the engine room telegraphs in cold fog, etc., and the least inattention was punished.

Fisher convinced the weekly North Little Rock Times to start carrying his political cartoons and, before long, other newspapers began reprinting them in their Sunday editions.

Fisher, also a professional jazz pianist, applied the lessons of William Carlos Williams ' Paterson to his native Birmingham in his long poem City.

Ford had a long working relationship with R. A. Fisher.

Ford also had a long working relationship with R. A. Fisher.

Today, the recreation area consists of the remains of the earthen Fort Fisher and a museum at Fort Fisher State Historic Site, an oceanfront beach pavilion, a large lagoon popular with windsurfers, and a long stretch of beach that is accessible only by four-wheel drive vehicles.

In the late 19th century, a long rock jetty called " The Rocks " was built west of Fort Fisher to aid navigation by stopping shoaling in the Cape Fear River.

In contrast the Fisher test is, as its name states, exact as long as the experimental procedure keeps the row and column totals fixed, and it can therefore be used regardless of the sample characteristics.

Since the Fisher transformation is approximately the identity function when | r | < 1 / 2, it is sometimes useful to remember that the variance of r is well approximated by 1 / N as long as | ρ | is not too large and N is not too small.