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Harold Poling, former Ford CEO, Dies

May 17, 2012

DETROIT—Harold “Red” Poling, Ford Motor Co.’s CEO in the early 1990s, has died. He was widely credited with imposing a tough restructuring program that turned around Ford’s money-losing North American automotive operations in the early 1980s. MORE

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