Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
Albert Chaperau explained that he liked to bring in gifts for his friends. Acquaintances of Mr. Chaperau were called upon to explain that they accepted his gifts in good faith. Among the embarrassed donees were Comedians Jack Benny and Jack Pearl; Cinemactor Wallace Ford, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Twentieth Century-Fox Executive Joseph Moskowitz. Professing great "amusement" over it all last week, Albert Chaperau cracked...
LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS, 1892-1918 -Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford-Houghton Mifflin...
There are three methods of automotive patent use; one exemplified by Ford, another by Packard, the third by practically everybody else. Ford grants royalty-free license of its patents to anyone. Packard charges and pays royalties. Chrysler, General Motors and all other big manufacturers subscribe to the Automobile Manufacturers' Association's cross-licensing agreement, granting free interchange of all patents taken out before...
President Edsel Ford explained his company's traditional aloofness with a 1903 anecdote: "My father inquired of one of the officers of the [A.M.A.] association if it were possible to join this association. ... He was told, I understand, he had best go out and manufacture some motor cars and gain a reputation and prove that he wasn't a fly-by-night...