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Word: forde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, William Clay Ford, 22, youngest son of the late Automaker Edsel, boarded a ship from England to welcome home Fiancee Martha Firestone, 21, daughter of Rubbermaker Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Last week Short Laig got his wish. The independent Foreman's Association of America, which had struck the Ford Motor Co. in the confident belief it could close it drum-tight, was getting the worst thrashing in its six-year career. And it was being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rout at the Rouge | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep running only if production remained high enough to be profitable. When one department fell behind, threatening a shutdown, a shop steward growled: "Look, you lazy bums, let's do a day's work for a change." The department soon caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rout at the Rouge | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Until." With Ford auto assembly unhurt, pink-cheeked, balding Robert Keys, the ex-Ford foreman who had formed F.A.A. in 1941 and still heads it, telephoned Ford Personnel Chief John S. Bugas, and asked what Ford had to offer. Answered Bugas crisply: "I'll be very happy to talk to you when the men go back to work-not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rout at the Rouge | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

There were greetings from Fans Tallulah Bankhead, Billie Burke and Henry Ford II, and among the guests was Edgar Guest himself, who leaned over Anne's armful of roses, bussed her soundly and said to the audience: "There is no one for whom I have greater affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eddie Guest's Rival | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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