Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another week-unless makers of parts had to stop production before that time for lack of steel, coal, or power. (Birmingham Gas Co. this week notified its industrial customers that if temperatures went down to freezing, it would have to divert their entire supply of gas to domestic consumers.) Ford, Chrysler and Hudson used the Thanksgiving weekend as an excuse for temporary shutdowns. Unless the coal strike ended, 500,000 autoworkers would be out of work by Christmas. They would be out sooner if an embargo was clamped on all but essential freight...
...described by Kendall, it sounded wonderful. It would have a neat aluminum body, would do 60 miles an hour and would retail for only ?100, one-third under Ford or Morris. Best of all, Magician Kendall promised production of 500 a week by 1947. Those who scoffed were told to look at what he had already done...
...Selznick's Duel in the Sun, with all its dazzling cast and alleged $7 million cost, is nonetheless a horse opera. So are Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (which started out to be a story of Billy the Kid, but now features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan Bennett. ¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman...
...Darling Clementine. Director John Ford's handsome horse opera for the carriage trade, with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME...
...worried about competition from the new Ford tractor, which will also have a hydraulic control mechanism. Said Kyes with a hard grin: "I recall that we have a number of patents." Old Henry Ford was never frightened by the threat of patent suits. Whether young Henry is remains to be seen...