Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with "gentlemen's agreements" to stabilize prices, according to the industrial engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, is that 60% of the agreers are gentlemen, 30% just act like gentlemen and 10% neither are nor act like gentlemen. Result in the early years of the steel industry was that every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into...
Last week the dammed-up waters of the Saline River spilled through a generator at the little village of Milan. Mich, creating power for Ford Motor Co.'s 15th "factory in the meadow." All but three of the 16 are in Michigan within 50 miles of Dearborn, and the Milan factory is fairly typical; a good example of Henry Ford's back-to-the-farm hobby which also helps him make automobiles at a profit...
More than a year ago Ford workmen appeared in Milan, began throwing a dam across the Saline, turning the Milan Garage and an old grist mill into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more...
...mothers' proverb, referring to boys' chores, says that "Two boys are only half a boy." This saying applies also to most literary collaborations, even to those of such individually able collaborators as were Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. To Tahiti-Expatriates Nordhoff & Hall, who in 18 years have collaborated on eight books, it applied least in their H. M. S. Bounty trilogy, where they followed a true story, applies most in The Dark River, where they follow their imaginations, the Satevepost (where this story ran serially) and Hollywood...
...Henry Ford's schools in Greenfield, with 244 pupils all told, go from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian...