Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minister Mesta was a little late getting to her post. When her Packard-borne party (with a luggage-laden Ford in the vanguard) motored from Paris to the border, they were stopped cold by strangely hostile frontier guards. After lengthy palaver, it appeared that Mrs. Mesta had picked the wrong country: the frontier she tried to cross was not Luxembourg's, but Belgium's. Two miles away an official welcoming committee was waiting, all set with flowers and speeches. By the time the party finally found little Luxembourg, the welcoming committee had become discouraged and gone home...
...agreement would set a fourth-round wage pattern for all industry. The C.I.O. autoworkers, already set to strike against Ford for similar demands, are dragging their feet. So are John L. Lewis' mineworkers, whose contract has expired. All told, more than 1,500,000 unionists are watching to see if it is peace...
Twelve blocks north of. the Center on Broadway, David Dubinsky runs his International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from a chromium and air-conditioned building once owned by Henry Ford. To a large extent, he also runs the Manhattan garment district (where 70% of all women's clothes are made) and all the other centers of the industry scattered across the U.S. and Canada...
...boss goes by. The door flies open explosively and a stubby little man in slacks and sport shirt bursts out, waving a handful of papers, spouting orders, and trailing hovering assistants like gulls behind a tug. In moments of repose, behind a blond curved desk that was once Edsel Ford's, Dubinsky squirms with one leg curled beneath him in the traditional tailor's pose, while his snapping brown eyes watch his visitor steadily-calm, curious, appraising. He plucks papers from the litter on his desk with a triumphant instinct that would have done credit to W.C. Fields...
While Millionaires Bing Crosby and Bob Hope worried what an oil strike by one of their companies near Snyder, Tex. would do to their income taxes, a gusher shot up in the same area for Millionaire Henry Ford...