Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the Ford Sunday Evening Hour, the ABC network wire got tangled up with a private long-distance line. Sample result: "Is this 31, ring 3?" "Yes, hello, hello." "Can you hear me?" "Hello, yes, where's Myrtle...
...town lawyer in Hastings (pop. 5,175), noted principally for his 42-suit wardrobe and a showplace residence. A onetime Nebraska cowpuncher, he had gone to the University of Michigan to study law. When he ran out of money he switched to the University of Detroit, worked on a Ford assembly line...
...ambassador did not seem particularly enchanted with Detroit, nor with the detectives who formed a wall of flesh around him throughout his visit. But he was shown capitalistic splendor of all types. He was taken to the Ford plant, equipped with goggles, and directed to stare into an open hearth furnace. Russian-born Mike Mukol, a steelworker, was called up to explain everything...
Nobody conked the ambassador. Furthermore, Detroit admitted that his wife was handsome. She wore a semi-transparent summer dress at the Ford plant and her slip kept climbing up underneath it. Everybody admired her legs. Said one observer in a hoarse aside: "Don't tell me that's peasant stock." High point of the visit was a banquet staged by the Detroit Committee of Russian Relief, Inc. It was held in the cream and red ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel. It was a real party-bald heads gleamed like large opals and many of the female capitalists...
Dark Spots. Detroit's automakers, still in low gear, turned out only 47,000 cars and trucks last week. This week, output should increase and next week jump, thanks to a big boost when Ford gets back into production. But no one was even guessing when automakers would reach their 1941 figure of 130,000 units a week. Packard's George Christopher solemnly warned that the CPA order on steel (and another priority system upcoming on iron castings and pig iron) may cut all car production again to a dribble. And the industry was still plagued by suppliers...