Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, where there is a continual bull market in optimism, feeling ran high. But Washington had had little to do with it. The President and his labor advisers had shot their bolt. The labor picture had been brightened not by White House action but by two overtures by industry (Ford and Chrysler), a mollifying gesture by a union (the Packinghouse Workers) and an agreement reached with but routine Government intervention (the railroad case). Decisive moves to clear up the picture completely would likewise have to be initiated by industry and labor...
...whole ideological battle, in which Walter Reuther had fired the opening shots, had subsided, at least temporarily. The day after Ford and Chrysler signed with U.A.W., even Walter Reuther spoke in strangely subdued tones. Gone were his cries of "let's see the books" and "ability to pay." He now was content to get his wage raise of 19½? an hour and go back to work...
...enterprise. But the battle had turned into a simple haggle over prices and wages, and Mr. Wilson was a very lonely man indeed. As long as the steel strike remained in force he could, if he wanted, sit out his own strike without fear of being dangerously outstripped by Ford and Chrysler. But once the steel strike was settled, G.M. would have to get back to work or watch its competitors take over the market...
Meanwhile the effects of the steel strike were everywhere apparent: 16,000 miners were laid off in coal mines, 5,000 railroad workers in Pittsburgh, 15,000 auto workers at Ford. In New York City, delivery of milk in cardboard containers was reduced by an estimated 35% because the containers are made by American Can Co., which was closed by the strike...
...TRAGEDY OF TRUMAN: HE HAS FAILED THE NATION IN CRISIS. The byline: Samuel Crowther, part-time Hearstwriter, onetime literary collaborator of Henry Ford. Sample Crowtherisms...