Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William C. Ford, grandson of Henry, was elected a director of the Ford Motor Co., eight months before he would graduate from Yale...
...only averted a strike; it had put Chrysler, Ford and many big parts makers on the spot. G.M. was looking ahead to the return of competitive selling, wanted no breaks in production. This week President Wilson announced that G.M. planned no price changes on its cars as the result of its new wage pattern...
...Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed a wage cut, faced a bargaining date with U.A.W. June...
Berg was fiercely proud of a Ford bought with the proceeds of Wozzeck. Once when a reporter wrote that he was "neglected and starving," Berg called up a friend: "It is necessary that tonight we starve better than usual; come and starve with us." They ate at one of Vienna's best restaurants. With his second opera, Lulu, unfinished, he died of blood poisoning...
...many of his underlings, fed up with his imperious one-man rule, did. As such smart merchandisers as Walter Hoving (see below) and the Ford Motor Co.'s Albert Browning left, they jokingly formed the "Has-Been Club." In due time they took in 21 Ward has-been presidents and top executives. Not till Vice President Wilbur Harrington Norton, 44, became president in 1946 did Chairman Avery have someone who was ready to dish out rough treatment as well as take...