Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Reuther would give in came when Ford proposed a three-year agreement. Reuther raised no real objection, even though this key Ford demand had been flatly turned down for months. From then on, differences were quickly settled. The problem was to find enough high-sounding but low-cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room, as union stewards...
...daybreak Bugas stopped bargaining to see the Ford board again, came back with more contract "refinements." At 10 a.m. the strike deadline passed, and 98,000 Ford workers went out while the U.A.W. hastily readied telegrams urging them to please go back to work. A few hours later Fordman John Bugas, happy that he had bagged the management's best contract since World War II, stretched out his hand to Reuther. "Walter," he beamed, "you've got yourself a deal...
...hard-hit auto industry, how many auto workers will be rehired depends partly on how well the 1959 models sell. Automakers are moving into volume production much more cautiously than in past years, employing far fewer workers. Ford says that it will roll into full production with 106,000 workers, down from last year's 140,000. While General Motors was mum on its payroll, the United Auto Workers estimated that G.M. will swing into full production of the '59s with 300,000 to 325,000 hourly rated workers v. an average of 392,000 in the last...
...city to condemn the land and put it up for sale, but no builders would buy, because the city's plans for the project seemed too high-class for the moderate rents it wanted to charge. Finally, in 1954, a group of citizens, ranging from Henry Ford to the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, obtained a 90-day option. With James W. Bell, Detroit City Planner, as coordinator, the group raised $450,000 in loans, set itself a high goal: no regimentation, no restrictions, the most advanced technology and design ("We must be mindful that we are building...
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28--Whitey Ford and Warren Spahn appeared the likely starters in Wednesday's World Series opener at County Stadium as the majors ended the regular season...