Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of growing public concern about inflation, United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther last week fired off an astute challenge to the presidents of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. He proposed that 1) the Big Three should cut prices on 1958 models by a specific $100 below prices for 1957 models-or more; 2) the U.A.W. would then give nonspecific "full consideration" to lower company earnings in framing its 1958 demands (reportedly to include the four-day week and a substantial wage increase); and 3) if U.A.W. demands appeared to force the companies to raise prices again, U.A.W...
...acute (because of 200% jump in cut-rate imports since 1954) that prices of heavy sheet window glass and light picture-frame glass are being lowered 7% to 16%. Big companies, operating some plants at 50% to 75% capacity, are going along with cuts started by Libbey-Owens-Ford to match foreign prices, but complain that reductions are unrealistic because glass workers' wages will soon rise about 12? an hour...
...station WXYZ came rumblings that a fresh new talent had successfully invaded the troubled precincts of TV comedy: a youthful (31), crewcut, putty-faced buffoon named Soupy Sales (real: Milton Hines), whose daily kiddie show, Comics, has outpulled such network favorites as Arthur Godfrey Time and the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show to become the top-rated daytime show in the area. Late each night Soupy's on in Soupy's On with a cultivated zaniness and a woolly collection of characters that faintly echo the bite of bigger wits now departed from the TV scene. There is Charles...
Miss Tettelbach is a member of the Manhattanville Drama Club, and has appeared in many starring roles, including Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth, Ford said. She and a classmate won an intercollegiate Drama Contest for the "recognition scene" from Anastasia, he added...
Admission for the production will be only 90 cents, for the Players are aiming for a Summer School audience, said Ford. The directors for the presentation are Eugene Gervasi and Thomas Lumbard...