Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Ford let it be known last month that he had permanently given up operations in Kansas City-where a Ford assembly plant was tied up so tight by striking United Automobile Workers that officials were unable to enter their own offices. Last week, tacitly admitting that he had merely tried to scare the city's authorities, Mr. Ford let it be known that he would reopen in Kansas City as soon as adequate police protection was guaranteed. In Detroit, Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, announced: "We did not close the plant. It was done by the people...
Students considering applying for American Field Service Fellowships, which allot $1400 to each winner to be spent in specialized study in France may consult with the chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, Professor Jeremiah D. M. Ford, at 175 Widener Library, it was announced today...
...functionaries who transmit the finished car to the buyer consist of distributors and factory branches selling wholesale and dealers selling retail. There are 45,000 U. S. dealers and distributors, 60,000 repair shops. Ford and Chevrolet each have 10,000 dealers; Chrysler, Plymouth, De Soto and Dodge together have 8,000 distributors & dealers; Buick 3,000. Ninety-seven percent of U. S. towns cannot be worked by a dealer with profit, and 3,627 towns produce 85% of total sales. Cities, ranked by size, are the richest territoric:, A dealer usually sells two used cars for every...
...distribution is thus Business with a capital B and many a distributor and dealer has ridden his trade to fame & fortune. Distributor Charles S. Howard of San Francisco, having sold Buicks since the company began, now enjoys possession of the race horse Seabiscuit. Ford Dealer Samuel Breadon owns the St. Louis Cardinals. Packard Dealer Alvan Tufts Fuller became Governor of Massachusetts. Newest star to rise from the dealer ranks is Roy Samuel Evans, president of new American Bantam...
...Ford. Henry Ford is not an A. M. A. member and would therefore (according to custom) get inferior space at the Automobile Show proper. This week his debutante was on view on upper Broadway with enough changes to startle all comers. For the first time since 1908 Ford is offering two models unlike in appearance and interior appointments. Last year's Fords came as the V-8 standard or de luxe, almost identical save in power. The new de luxe model looks like the 1938 Lincoln Zephyr (see below), has a hood that curves down over the grille...