Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Campbell snorted: "You can't catch water in a bucket that is already full." Authority Chairman Fritz Englehard retorted that the flood control phase of the project will not be complete until Marshall Ford Dam is finished, 18 months hence. The present dams are not supposed to. control floods, but to produce power. Even so, the uppermost dam, Buchanan, would not have been too full to hold the flood but for inadequate river readings from upstream, which had let floodwaters catch the engineers napping. Dissatisfied flood victims, remembering that the Authority had taken credit for holding back a similar...
Thereupon the Governor took his drastic step. He ordered his soldiers to halt the NLRB proceedings, explained: "It is vital that the opposing parties . . . centre their attention on settlement of their differences." Said Maytag Attorney Edward Ford: "Rehashing the gripes of the men before a large crowd does not make for a peaceful atmosphere." Convinced that the company was trying to starve out the strikers the union professed to welcome martial intervention, said all that prevented settlement was Maytag's refusal to negotiate. Equally convinced that a State Governor lacked power to interfere with a Federal proceeding, NLRB ordered...
...Henry Ford's 75th Birthday (Sat. 11:30 a. m., NBC-Red) celebrated by 9,000 Detroit school children...
...Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford for $150 and used the money to start a business of his own. In Times Square last week-a little over five years later-he snapped a switch to light his latest advertising creation, a mammoth animated cartoon for Old Gold cigarets...
...Ford thinks that the centralization of the 1920s has been carried far enough. He looks to a time when all the incredible number of light parts that go into a Ford will be made in little towns where the annual shut-down for retooling can be made to coincide with the harvest...