Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement, the whole labor picture changed. G.M. promptly signed with 3,000 rubber workers in Dayton at the magical new 15? figure. At the least, it meant that Walter Reuther would be hard put to it to avoid accepting about the same terms at G.M., at Chrysler, and at Ford. At most it meant that the U.S. could look forward to a season of real labor peace...
...Dear Little Fordson." Nowhere was Europe's changed picture of Ford (and the U.S.) more poignantly illustrated than in Russia. In the '20s, Ford was one of the Soviet Union's first-string heroes. He was considered the great revolutionist in production methods and a drive was on to "Fordize" Russian plants. Workers were exhorted to "Do it the Ford way, it is the best way." His name was better known than Stalin's at the time. Villages held festivals in honor of the Fordson tractor. Wrote Leon Trotsky: "The most popular word among our forward...
Since then, Stalin has become somewhat better known. Last week, all that Pravda and Izvestia printed on the end of Fordzonishko's father was: "A correspondent of Reuters Agency reports from Detroit the death of the well-known owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford...
...winter in a Manhattan hospital after a neck operation, flew to Florida for two weeks in the sun, played nine holes of golf in 45, and caught a 50-lb. sailfish. He was back in baseball at 52-as "consultant" to the boys' baseball program that Ford Motor Co. runs with the American Legion. Besides his salary (undisclosed), the onetime home-run king gets a shiny new Lincoln...
Though he is only 29, Andrew has been painting for 17 years. He left school at twelve to study in his father's Chadds Ford, Pa. studio with his artist sisters, Carolyn and Henriette (whose husband, New Mexico's Peter Kurd, is also a painter). Andrew had his first one-man show at 20. He sold every painting in it, and has since found buyers for almost everything he paints...