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...signing this contract, Ford not only reversed its labor policy but outdid both General Motors and Chrysler, neither of which has granted union shops. Said Edsel Ford: "No half measures will be effective. ... So we have decided to go the whole way." One thing was certain: the most important member of the "we" was 77-year-old Henry Ford. There were many conflicting theories about what had moved...
Millionaire ex-Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island was ordered to the Canal Zone for Naval Reserve duty. . . . Edsel Ford's son Benson was called by the draft board for his final physical examination. . . . But C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, No. 1 labor organizer at General Motors, finally won deferment on the plea that his wife, who is also his secretary, would lose her job if he were drafted. . . . And 6 ft. 3½ in. Actor Orson Welles was exempted, of all things, for asthma...
Engaged. Benson Ford, 21, second son of Edsel Ford, grandson of Henry Ford, and an imminent candidate for military service; and Edith McNaughton, daughter of oldtime Cadillac Executive Lynn McNaughton; in Grosse Pointe, Mich...
Last week the long, leveling hand of the draft reached out for many a young man with a big name. Henry Ford II, 23, and his brother Benson, 21, due for early "call in Detroit, made no demurrers of the kind which kept their father Edsel at home (working at war materials...
Ford and Chrysler also have made their choice. In San Diego, Edsel Ford and his crack Production Chief Charles E. Sorensen spent a couple of days looking over a Consolidated (B24) four-motored bomber, then went north to Santa Monica to talk to Planemaker Donald Wills Douglas. Result of many conferences was Ford's announcement that it would build 6-245 for assembly in two plants. Consolidated will operate a plant at Fort Worth, and Don Douglas will see that his competitors' flying fortress is well made, properly tested, in a plant at Tulsa. Chrysler's pick...