Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four score and ten years ago, a gunman jumped onto the stage at Ford's Theater in Washington, and fled, to be hunted down as an assassin. Last week in the African nation founded by American freedmen, one Paul Dunbar cast himself in the role of John Wilkes Booth; he was not playacting...
...meet the increased demand for cars, General Motors President Harlow Curtice last week announced a $500 million expansion program, G.M.'s third major expansion in 18 months. It brought to $4 billion the company's postwar investment in U.S. and Canadian capital improvements. (Only two months ago Ford boosted its $1.7 billion postwar expansion program by $625 million; Chrysler is spending an estimated $625 million for expansion...
...only a collective bargaining problem; it was also a political issue. Many states have laws or administrative rulings that bar unemployment payments as long as a worker receives money from his employer. The union's lobbyists are going to work to get them changed, because the Ford agreement to G.A.W. is off unless the governments in states containing two-thirds of Ford employees agree by June 1, 1957 to permit the supplemental G.A.W. payments...
Thus, G.A.W. must get the blessing of Michigan, which has 56% of Ford employees, and several other states before the plan can go into effect. The state senate of Ohio (where 10% of Ford employees live) refused to go along with a G.A.W. plan last week, does not meet again until 1957. California has also ruled against G.A.W., and a political fight is shaping up in Illinois over the issue. But New Jersey permits the tie-in payments, and last week New York's Governor W. Averell Harriman gave them his approval...
...flat-footed by what had happened in Detroit. In Chicago last week, the National Association of Manufacturers held a special meeting to consider one subject: G.A.W. The meeting was scheduled weeks ago, timed to give moral support to the automakers' battle against G.A.W. But the sudden settlement by Ford upset their plans and angered many of the delegates...