Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never had B.C. rubbed elbows with so many tycoons at one time as he did last week at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bosses of Du Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great industry came to eat breast of guinea hen with Forbes (at his expense) and get illuminated scrolls naming them "Today's 50 Foremost Business Leaders...
...years, Ford employees from janitor to vice president have been forbidden to smoke on the job. Old Henry did not approve of smoking, thought it made workers inefficient. Last week, six months after Old Henry's death, Young Henry lifted the ban-for all but women office workers...
Died. Samuel Crowther, 67, veteran journalist, pamphleteer, literary collaborator (My Life and Work, Today and Tomorrow, Edison As I Know Him, all with Henry Ford; Men and Rubber, with Harvey Firestone); after long illness; in Boston...
...merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet and Ford...
...Board Bonanza. But the majority of the reports showed rises, many of them of whopping size over strike-ridden 1946. In steel, Republic led with a nine-month net of $23,111,631, up 143% over the same period last year. Other big gainers were Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (up 234% to a nine-month net of $8,727,826), Burroughs Adding Machine Co. (up 367% to $4,403,050), Container Corp. of America...