Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the country, threatening growls arose from other unions. The C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers fumed at General Electric and Westinghouse. The U.A.W. sparred with General Motors and Ford. Harry Bridges' longshoremen and Joe Curran's N.M.U. argued loudly with shippers. All wanted more money...
...auto production last week fell 17,600 more to 85,345 units, the worst production week in three months. G.M. last week shut down eleven Chevrolet assembly plants, and this week closed the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac assembly plants for a week. Plymouth also shut down for a week. Ford, which had closed earlier for model changes, had not got back to volume production. On top of the steel shortage were the threats of the rambunctious C.I.O.-U.A.W. to strike Chrysler and G.M. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Wilhelm von Opel, 76, Germany's gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit...
Would the cuts be passed on to consumers? There were no signs of it, especially in the auto industry, biggest steel user. The recent increase in freight rates had more than canceled out the savings in steel. So some automobile prices were still rising. (Last week the Ford Motor Co. upped the price of its new Mercury, a heavier...
Fort Apache (Argosy; RKO Radio), John Ford's first movie since his apostolically solemn Fugitive, is an unabashed potboiler. An idiotically reckless martinet (nicely played by Henry Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style...