Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Captain Harry C. Butcher, 44, General Eisenhower's ex-aide, confidant and best-selling Boswell (My Three Years with Eisenhower); and Mary Margaret Ford, 34, ex-Red Grosser who met Navyman Butcher in Europe after the Battle of the Bulge; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bryn Mawr...
Bette Davis plays identical twins. As the Good Twin she falls in love with a pipe-puffing engineer (Glenn Ford). As the Bad Twin she steals him, pipe & all, marries him, manages to be spectacularly unfaithful. But the Good Twin stays staunch and true despite the Neanderthal attentions of an alarming artist (Dane Clark...
...many another industry, strikes turned black into red. Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co. lost $450,445 v. a net profit of $1,903,464 last year. Nash-Kelvinator, with a loss of $1,152,775 compared to last year's $510,258 profit, showed what suppliers' strikes had done to the auto industry. Hardest hit of all was General Electric. President Charles E. Wilson gave out the black-bordered facts: a loss of $13,701,580, first deficit since 1922, v. last year's net profit...
...Castings: No Autos. Big business was not much better off. The auto industry may go on a three-day week. Ford had already laid off more than 45,000 men. General Motors Corp., after scouting feverishly, found enough coal to keep open its big foundry at Saginaw, Mich, for another five days. If the Saginaw plant shuts down, all Chevrolet production in the Flint-Detroit area (about 38,000 workers) would stop within a week for lack of castings. Iron-foundrymen, supplying parts for autos, farm implements, housing and a long list of other scarce products, saw widespread closings only...
Albert Jesse Browning, 46, formerly the Army's No. 2 procurement officer, lately domestic-commerce director of the Department of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 28), was signed up by Henry Ford II after a ten-minute interview. His job: purchasing agent for Ford...