Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incompleteness was "utterly farcical" to New Jersey's Congressman J. Parnell Thomas and to most of the members of his Un-American Activities Committee. Said Thomas: "There are hundreds of Communist and Communist-front organizations alone." Said a committee member: "As up-to-date as a Model T Ford...
...great mass of Americans, the automobile not only represents the keystone of happiness and the hallmark of success but is the only unshifting goal in a baffling world. Millions who live unscarred through the jalopy or adolescent stage of life toil for decades to progress from Ford to Pontiac, from Pontiac to Buick, and cannot die happy unless guaranteed delivery to the grave in a Packard or Cadillac hearse...
...years A.F. (After Ford), cleanliness was next to Fordliness, Ford was in his flivver, and all was well with the world...
Writing about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk...
Bell Bows Out. James Ford Bell, 68, the "Dean of American Millers," bowed out as chairman of giant General Mills, Inc. (Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, etc.). Bell helped found the company in 1928, was its president until he became chairman in 1934, steadily built the company sales to a peak of $379,032,427 in its last fiscal year. President Harry Bullis, 57, will move up into the chairmanship, and Executive Vice President Leslie N. Perrin, 61, will become president. "The old man" will keep in touch as chairman of a newly formed "committee on finance and technological progress...