Word: ford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When reporters later discovered Messrs. Bennett & Martin lunching together in a Ford dining room, the two stuck to their story that the meeting "just happened." Mr. Martin said he had heard that Harry Bennett would never receive Homer Martin, had called to find out whether that was so, and was "greeted very cordially." Mr. Ford "just happened" to drop in on his daily rounds. Messrs, Bennett and Martin talked mostly about the 32-hour week, which U.A.W. was trying to sell to Chrysler, General Motors and other automakers as a stimulus to re-employment...
Harry Bennett: "I told Martin he could come out here any time to talk about wages, workingmen and working conditions in any plants connected with or supplying the Ford Motor Company. At no time did Martin and I discuss unions. However, I told newspapermen in Martin's presence that if we need a union-U.A.W. or any other-we'll get one. Right now we don't need one. If our men want to organize in any union they'll do it and that's all right with...
...press, more surprised perhaps than the participants in the surprise party, was jolted into recalling the predictions of some prophets, that at some day unpredictable Henry Ford would surprise the U.S. by making a gesture toward organized labor...
...monthly production of reasonably effective fighting aircraft. In acceleration of aircraft production Germany has pioneered, led the whole European field and may still be leading, despite frantic efforts to accelerate production by the other great powers, notably Britain. Göring has been to the European war plane what Ford was to the car, and Lord Nuffield is only now entering the air race as Britain's Big Builder...
...companies were hard at work on two new feature pictures for Paramount release. The companies: Odessco (for Odium Steele Co.), backed by Stanley Odium, son of Tycoon Floyd Odium; Triple A (for Associated Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones...