Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demand by Chrysler employees was wage-and-benefit compensation comparable with that of their counterparts at Ford and GM. When Chrysler teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in 1979 and 1980, unions made concessions worth approximately $1 billion. But last year the company earned $2.4 billion, and workers want some of the benefits of the good times. Says Charles Ryan, 59, a janitor at Detroit's Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice...
Nonetheless, the road ahead for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler could prove as rocky as a potholed city street. The first sign of trouble came last week, even before the strike was called. Manufacturers reported that new-car sales for the first ten days in October fell by 10.1%, as compared with the same period last year. During September, more than 800,000 Americans rushed to buy cars because of the special 7.7% and 7.5% financing offered by the major carmakers. The lower interest rate saved a consumer $1,056 on a four-year loan...
Automobile dealers have traditionally been a loyal lot, sticking by their carmaker through ups and downs. If a new-car dealer sold Ford Motor Co. products, buyers had to shop elsewhere for a General Motors car. But after the auto recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when some 5,000 dealers closed their doors, the survivors tried to reduce their dependence on a single company by carrying a host of different cars. Today so-called megadealers sell many makes, sometimes out of one-stop auto supermarkets, where customers can buy either a Mercedes-Benz or a Jeep. Other...
...John Ford's Hints on Household Taste: The Influence of Genre Painting on Fort Apache: William Howze, Museum of Fine Arts...
...wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once seen Jon Hall swim across a lagoon in John Ford's South Sea romance The Hurricane, and, as he later told it, said to himself, "I can do that...