Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fine Whipping Boy. For those who raised the cry that the increased automation in new plants will throw people out of work, Ford had a ready answer: "Automation is a perfectly logical, tactical propaganda weapon, for the labor leaders. It's a fine whipping boy . . . [But] let's not kid ourselves . . . that automation is a genuine current issue. It's a grossly inflated issue-as most labor economists well know." From 1950 to 1955, a period of great modernization at Ford, jobs actually increased by 30,000 (up 21%) and wages by more than $381 million...
Referring to the U.A.W.'s threat to strike, if necessary, to get some form of guaranteed annual wage in current negotiations, Ford said: "Today, both management and workers know that a major strike could dump the applecart of our present and prospective high prosperity-and nobody wants that. Ford Motor Co.'s management has every determination to arrive at a fair agreement in the best interests of our employees, our company, the automobile industry and the public at large. We believe our employees are realistic and sensible people, and just as eager as we are for the continuation...
Dangerous Medicines. Ford made it clear that he did not like GAW. U.S. industry can provide "a solid foundation of security under every American home and family . . . without piecemeal experimenting with dangerous medicines on guinea-pig industries." Said he: "Overall prosperity is the first determinant of the level and stability of employment. No private industry plan can long maintain high employment in the face of a downward business trend . . . I, for one, am highly impatient with the reactionary thinking of some union leaders . . . who are generally wedded to the mean and miserly concept of a mature economy that...
Automakers, who have suspected that the U.A.W. will force a showdown with Ford first in its GAW fight, last week got another strong hint from the union. The General Motors contract had been due to expire May 29, two days before Ford's, thus making G.M. the first target. But last week the U.A.W. extended G.M.'s contract nine days, putting Ford under the gun first...
...picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from Carmen, La Bohème, II Trovatore and Samson et Dalila. In the final fourth, with the loyal support of her husband (Glenn Ford), she grimly fights off her affliction. Somehow, the film trails vaguely away from the sense of real-life sorrow and courage which inspired it. Instead, the audience is left with a tantalizing impression that if the heroine had stopped singing and stayed home with her husband as a good wife should...