Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When hulking Richard Truman Frankensteen was nominated for mayor of Detroit, many a U.S. left-winger got excited. Frankensteen was a founder and vice president of the vast United Automobile Workers, C.I.O. He had bled at the hands of Ford "service men" at the famed Battle of the Underpass in 1937. He also seemed to have some political sex appeal: he was a college man (University of Dayton '32), a ready speaker, young (38) and did not mind admitting that he wrote operettas, collected dolls as a hobby. If U.S. labor was to produce, not merely influence poli. ticians...
...Science degree from the University of Louvain, got top marks from Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...
...onetime star pupil of Illustrator Howard Pyle and a famed mural painter and book illustrator in his own right, whose colorful, romantic depictions have given many Americans their conceptions of such fictional and legendary figures as Long John Silver, Deerslayer and Odysseus; in a grade-crossing accident near Chadds Ford, Pa., in which his three-year-old grandson was also killed...
...knows where OPA will set the ceiling price for Detroit's new cars. But last week, OPA said flatly what prices are above the ceiling. It turned down a request of the Ford Motor Co., the first to apply for a 10-to-15% increase in 1942 car prices. The OPA suggested that Ford modify its increase, but did not say how much. This put Ford's round-faced sales manager, John Raymond Davis, on the hottest competitive spot in the industry...
...With Ford spilling out 480 cars and 770 trucks a day, Jack Davis had planned to announce his prices this week, begin taking orders. Already he has Ford's dealers stocked with cars. As the only way out, Jack Davis announced: Ford will sell its cars at 1942 prices. But it will expect buyers to pay any increase later which OPA allows...