Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose is this car?" "The car belongs to the director." Later on, some Russian unionists return the visit. Their American colleagues take them to Detroit. They stop before a huge factory building where several thousand cars are lined up. A Russian asks: "Whose factory is this?" "It is Ford's." "And to whom do these cars belong?" "Why, they belong to the workers...
...other Salt Lake pies. He is a director of the Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co., the Utah Home Fire Insurance Co., Utah Oil Refining Co., and vice president of the Clayton Investment Co. He operates a jewelry store in Logan, Utah, and with two brothers runs a Ford agency. He is a Mormon, and two of his three sons are serving in Europe as Mormon missionaries...
Biggest Slice. Just what did labor, with its new power and its new responsibility, want in its own field? To some, it looked as if the answer was simply that it wanted a hand in management. Answering Henry Ford II's statement that a fourth round of wages would necessitate higher prices, the U.A.W.'s Emil Mazey declared: "Our bargaining team can show Mr. Ford next spring that he can give a wage increase without raising the price of automobiles. Our experts will be glad to sit down with him and his associates, go over his books...
...from Colorado (Columbia) puts a reverse twist on the old story of the G.I. who comes home from the wars and hires his colonel to sweep out the office. This time, the colonel (Glenn Ford) returns to Colorado territory after the Civil War, becomes a judge, and proceeds to mop up the prison floors with men formerly in the cavalry with...
...Rubicam's Director of Research Peter Langhoff estimated that a half-hour television show in New York cost an advertiser $60.17 for every 1,000 sets reached. Though not exactly comparable, the radio network cost is only $2.40. The villain was production expense. For example: production costs of Ford's hour of radio drama are $10,000 a week. Besides actors, ten production people are needed. Production costs of a similar Ford show on television (the Ford Theater) are $17,000; and a production staff of 40, including 13 stagehands and five men in the control room...