Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Director Fernandez expected to fly to Hollywood (if the U.S. would forgive & forget his deportation record) to talk over plans for another U.S.-Mexican collaboration-this time with Director John Ford. He also wants to see Mrs. Goodrich about a part in a new Fernandez film. Said Indio: "If I see Goodrich I will say, 'This is nothing but a business proposition-my mind is clean...
...Darling Clementine (20th Century-Fox) is horse opera for the carriage trade. Directed by John Ford, who made the smashingly successful Stagecoach eight years ago, the new picture invites comparison to that old near-classic. And Clementine does indeed closely resemble Stagecoach. Nonetheless it is a rattling good movie full of gusto, gunplay and romance...
...U.A.W. knew that productivity had fallen. But the unionists insisted on the raise anyway. Bundy's president and majority stockholder Wendell Anderson, son of one of the founders of the Ford Motor Co., told them how they could get it: work on an incentive wage plan. Said the U.A.W., which hates such plans: no go. After much haggling, both sides compromised. The U.A.W. got its 18½? raise; it also got an incentive plan with a sugar-coated name: Cost Savings Sharing Plan. Bundy got around the union's deep-seated objections to incentive plans, which it feels...
...Henry Ford I discovered the soybean. Soon he was passionately convinced that it would work brave new industrial miracles. Before long, dumfounded visitors at Ford's drank soybean milk, ate soybean butter spread on soybean bread, came away convinced that old Henry would soon be turning out a soybean auto...
...pretty nearly did. He made soybean gearshift nobs, horn buttons, accelerator pedals-and even experimental bodies. But if soybean plastics were strong, they were also expensive; cheaper plastics were just as good or better. So last week young Henry Ford II pruned out the last of the soybean projects. Having converted two soybean-processing divisions to other work, Ford's sold a third plant, at Saline, Mich., to Soybrands, Inc. The selling price was secret, but it was no secret that the soybean era at Ford's had ended...