Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
...Henry Ford II got an eye-opening, if dispiriting lesson in labor relations. Three months ago, he had agreed to U.A.W.-C.I.O. demands for a pension plan that would cost the Ford Motor Co. around $200 million (TIME, July 7). Young Henry's plan was as revolutionary as his grandfather's $5-a-day wage was in 1914. The U.A.W., which had threatened to strike if it did not get the plan, apparently agreed. It loudly proclaimed that the joint U.A.W.-Ford pension plan would be a pattern for all other automakers to follow. But last week...
...elections Ford workers had two choices: 1) 7?-an-hour increase plus the pension which C.I.O. actuaries estimated would amount to a "real" raise of 22? an hour, or 2) a straight 15?-an-hour average increase without the pension...
Maryland also boasts a well rounded set of backs, as interchangeable as the parts of a Ford tractor. Key man in the offense is 200 pound fullback Hank Corrado. Operating from a single wing and a T, Joe Gianclli, 155 pound flutterback, calls the signals and may got away this afternoon for some long runs...
Rosika Schwimmer, famed war-to-war pacifist (who persuaded Henry Ford to send his "Peace Ship" to Europe in 1915), turned 70 in Manhattan, plumped for world government, laid the blame for war: "Men, women, young people, old people, capital, labor, militarists, churches, educators, scientists," said she, "accuse each other for causing and keeping up the war system they all proclaim to hate. They are all wrong and equally guilty...