Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divide & Conquer. This week Ford Motor Co. was to be served with a similar union demand, in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. As the bargaining began, U.A.W. (and C.I.O.) President Walter Reuther sat back in his second-floor office at Solidarity House (U.A.W.'s elegant headquarters), ready to manipulate his teams by private telephone lines to each conference suite. He also soft-pedaled strike talk. When a newsman asked whether the auto workers will strike, Reuther replied: "If I knew the answer-and I don't-I wouldn't tell...
Since G.M.'s contract expires May 29, and Ford's on June 1, the showdown-and possible strike-will come by early summer. In Detroit, automen were betting that a strike, if called, would be against Ford only, because Ford's 135,000 members would cost the U.A.W. little more than a third of the union benefits required for G.M.'s 325,000 members...
Cars in the Bank. If a strike does come, both G.M. and Ford will be in good shape to meet it. By setting alltime production records with 1955 models, the auto industry has not only kept pace with booming sales, but built a backlog of some 600,000 cars, enough to last the dealers five weeks. Moreover, a cutback in production would end the fat discounts auto buyers are now getting, thereby restore the dealers' normal profit on each...
...alumni group has been established to raise funds without cutting into the normal Law School income from alumni, Katz said, and he anticipated no difficulty in meeting the two-year deadline not by the Ford Foundation...
Construction of the addition is contingent on raising $500,000 from alumni and friends of the Law School to match an equal grant made in January by the Ford Foundation...