Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week. Five Detroit auto plants were closed down; some 37,000 workers were laid off. With General Motors limping along at only 65% of capacity, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said that "it looks as if it would be two years at least" before there was enough steel. Ford Motor Co. did more than grumble; it earmarked $18 million to build a blast furnace and buy a secondhand rolling mill to turn out steel itself...
...said in 1926, "must yield in its hostility toward unions." At the same time, he denounced the British general strike of 1926 as a breach of inviolable contract. In friendly tones, he asked the automobile industry to hold still and let itself be organized. The answer came from Henry Ford: "I guess I can run my business without Bill Green's help...
...sunny morning last week Ivins walked out to the garage (past the spot in his yard where he had once killed a Negro). Danny waited for "Grandpa" to back out his battered 1941 Ford coupe. Ivins touched the starter button. An explosion ripped the car apart. Danny, bowled over by the blast, was not seriously hurt. Burkett Ivins lived long enough to mutter: "I'm done in for good-but to think they would do that to my Danny." Beside him was his .45 Colt automatic...
...quote Mr. Grady Edney in your Sept. 22 issue: "Jazz 'purists' remind me of a little group of prim spinsters careening along in Henry's first Ford, warmly assuring themselves that the Lincoln Zephyr gliding by is only a commercial corruption of the Original Thing...
Bets Closed. The Ford Motor Co.'s pension plan was finally voted down by the U.A.W.-C.I.O. in favor of an immediate 15?-an-hour raise (TIME, Sept. 29). The increase, said U.A.W., gave Ford the highest wage scale in the industry, $1.52 an hour, and 7? above the industry average. The same week, 19 of Ford's well-heeled employees were fired for gambling during working hours...