Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst problem lay ahead. Last week the National Labor Relations Board set strike votes for Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 for 325,000 General Motors employes and 120,000 workers in Chrysler plants. Next, a similar voting date would be set for the 200,000 employes of the Ford Co. The union strategy, if its demands are not met: to strike one company at a time, let the others stay in operation, thus knock off the 'opposition one at a time...
Young Henry Ford, barely settled in his new chair as president, gave his billion dollar empire a shaking that rattled its teeth. The first shake tumbled Harry Ben nett out of power...
Bennett, the apple of Old Henry's eye, has long been second in command of the company. Young Henry removed "the little giant" from his potent position as boss of Ford's labor & industrial relations. Then, in two days, he demoted or fired nearly a dozen Bennett-men. Mr. Bennett would continue as a director of the com pany, but from now on. said Young Hen ry, in unmistakable tones, everyone would be responsible ''directly...
...lipped company, no one would say what had caused the earth quake. But this time the silence was doubly significant. When Young Henry moved into the presidency a fortnight ago, automen watched sharply to see how much power Old Henry would let him have. (In all the years Edsel Ford was president, Old Henry kept tight control in his own hands.) Now they knew. In allowing his old favorite's downfall, Old Henry had made it pikestaff plain that Young Henry is now absolute boss. It looked as if Old Henry Ford, either by choice or necessity, had finally...
...University of Wyoming with a law degree, then joined the FBI. Put in charge of the Detroit office shortly before the war, he made a notable record (he broke up two Nazi spy rings, kept sabotage in war plants at 0). He left the FBI to join the Ford Motor Co. two years ago as Bennett's assistant...