Q: BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. James Harding has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013.

The department's annual budget is in excess of 350million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London. Through the BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.

The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by Royal Charter, making it operationally independent of the government, who have no power to appoint or dismiss its director-general, and required to report impartially. As with all major media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum, both within the UK and abroad.

Answer the following questions:
1. What does BBC stand for?
2. How many staff members does it have?
3. How many focus on journalism?
4. Where is it located?
5. What type of coverage does it provide? Local?
6. Is it operated by a governmental agency?
7. Who is the director?
8. Since when?
9. How much information is generated daily?
10. Do they have online content?
11. Do they have a large budget?
12. What is it?
13. What is their newsroom called?
14. Where is it located?
15. Do they have multiple news centers?
16. Where?
17. Anywhere else?
18. Where?
19. Anywhere else?
20. Do each of these locations produce their own news?
A: 1. British Broadcasting Corporation
2. 3,500
3. 2,000
4. in Europe
5. global
6. No
7. James Harding
8. 2013
9. 120 hours
10. yes
11. yes
12. 350million
13. Broadcasting House
14. London
15. Yes
16. Millbank
17. Yes
18. Northern Ireland
19. Scotland
20. Yes
Q: The Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer, Troller, and Australian performance car manufacturer FPV. In the past, it has also produced tractors and automotive components. Ford owns an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom, and a 49% stake in Jiangling of China. It also has a number of joint-ventures, one in China (Changan Ford), one in Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), one in Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), one in Turkey (Ford Otosan), and one in Russia (Ford Sollers). It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family, although they have minority ownership (but majority of the voting power).

Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines; by 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to Tata Motors in March 2008. Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, Ford discontinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the Ford Motor Company most often called?
2. Was it named after someone?
3. Who?
4. What was his role in the company?
5. When was it incorporated?
6. Where?
7. Does Ford own anything else?
8. What?
9. What else?
10. Where is that located?
11. Is Ford invested in anything else in China?
12. What?
13. What other countries do they have ties in?
14. Is the Ford name part of each company abroad?
15. Where is it not?
16. Does the Ford family still have the majority of the voting power?
17. What did Ford introduce?
A: 1. Ford
2. Yes
3. Henry Ford
4. founder
5. 1903
6. Dearborn
7. Yes
8. part of Aston Martin
9. part of Jiangling
10. China
11. Yes
12. a joint-venture with Changan Ford
13. Taiwan Thailand Turkey, and Russia
14. No
15. Thailand
16. Yes
17. methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars
Q: CHAPTER XVI

MORE DISCOVERIES

"You settled up with him in full?" gasped Rick.

"Yes-- some time ago."

"Not for that stock in the Sunset Irrigation Company."

"I was not talking about the Irrigation Company. That is another affair. Your father was to see us about that on the morning when he-- er-- when he failed to come here. I-- er-- I thought he had gone back home to get certain documents which he stated he did not have with him."

"And you haven't seen or heard of him since?"

"Not a word, Mr. Rover-- I give you my word."

"Did he leave any of his papers with you when he was here last?"

"No." Jesse Pelter took up the telephone on his desk. "Give me 2345 River!" he said to Central. He turned to Dick. "You will have to excuse me, Mr. Rover, I have some important business to transact."

"It isn't as important as finding my father,". answered Dick, bluntly.

"I do not know how I can aid you."

"Perhaps you don't care to try," returned Dick, pointedly, as he arose.

"What do you mean?" demanded the broker, and hanging up the telephone receiver, he, too, arose.

"Never mind what I mean, Mr. Pelter. If you will give me no aid, I'll find my father alone," and having thus spoken, Dick marched from the offices, leaving the broker staring after him curiously.

"Hum! Looks like a smart young man!" murmured Jesse Pelter, to himself. "And I thought Anderson Rover's boys were all school kids! This lad has grown up fast. I wonder what he'll do next? I guess I had better keep my eye on him."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who wanted to find his father?
2. What's his last name?
3. Who's he questioning?
4. What's his occupation?
5. Was he helpful?
6. Who is his father?
7. Where was he before he vanished?
8. Did he leave anything?
9. What was he going to talk about earlier in the day?
10. For what?
11. Did he arrive?
12. What documents did he not have?
A:
1. Dick
2. Rover
3. Jesse Pelter
4. broker
5. No
6. Anderson Rover
7. the offices
8. No
9. settling up
10. Not for that stock in the Sunset Irrigation Company
11. No
12. certain documents