Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think this country is going to collapse," wailed a Michigan dairy farmer. If House Minority Leader Gerald Ford were not an optimist-and an ambitious Republican to boot-he might have thought so too, after four days of listening to dysphoric constituents in Michigan's Fifth District. "Never in my 19 years in Congress," said Jerry Ford at the end of a pulse-taking tour last week, "have I seen people so disturbed...
...years ago, Berry Gordy Jr. was making $90 a week as a chrome trimmer on a Ford Motor Co. assembly line near Detroit. At 37, he is still applying finishing touches, but now he owns the whole assembly line. Instead of autos, he rolls out pop records - and has become a millionaire several times over...
...60th birthday, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther last week presided over a meeting of his lieutenants. He emerged with the information that Ford would be his union's "target company" in negotiations that, if they break down, could lead to a strike this week. Those negotiations almost certainly will break down, and the strike is more than likely to take place. "We made the decision not with our hearts but with our heads," Reuther said in explaining why the U.A.W. wouldn't tackle the giant, General Motors...
...nattered back and forth over negotiating tables. Not until early last week did G.M. Negotiator Earl Bramblett hand U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock a 22-page booklet titled Summary of General Motors Proposals to the U.A.W. for a New Three-Year National Agreement. A few minutes later, negotiators for Ford and Chrysler made almost identical offers...
...price and power level, have a mere 3.2% share of the domestic market and 6.4% of German exports. In the first seven months of 1967, NSU car sales dropped 27% from the same period last year. Volkswagen too was feeling the pinch: in July both Opel (G.M.) and Taunus (Ford) outsold the Beetle in Germany. That NSU has survived the crush of the giants at all is a triumph. Its sales grew from $10 million in 1958 to $120 million last year, and almost all profits were poured back into the company. Now, says Von Heydekampf...