Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford Motor Co., leading the way, agreed to sign up with its 100,000 United Auto Workers at an 18?-per-hour wage increase (see BUSINESS...
...Wilmington last week a memorial exhibition of 66 Wyeth illustrations and descriptive paintings was on view. Neighbors from nearby Chadds Ford, where he had lived, came over to take a look and to remember their genial, hard-working friend. They figured his kids might carry on. Three of Wyeth's five children, along with son-in-law Peter Kurd, are artists; son Andrew (28) had already had five one-man shows in Manhattan...
When white-haired, handsome Charles E. Sorensen was squeezed out of his job as Ford's production chief in 1944, he flopped down on a Florida beach to forget his troubles. Last week he was back on a Florida beach again and he had more troubles. This time he had been squeezed out of his job as president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., which he had held for nearly two years. He was still production boss, but no longer president...
...contrast, Production Man Sorensen, who bossed Ford's car-making for years, thinks most anyone can sell a car if it is made right. He wanted to spend millions to modernize Willys' production lines. Canaday balked, insisted the job could be done with present equipment, and shrewd selling...
...employer & employe get this far, said Ford, they could go on "toward more certain, more stabilized employment," make U.S. industry "a place in which men and women can grow and develop into better jobs...