Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only as samples of what is being accomplished in aviation. The small planes are dressed up to stimulate sales. Many are being bought at sight. The Exhibition is a sales opportunity which U. S. manufacturers seem to have foregone. The only U. S. plane on show was a trimotored Ford...
...built motor cars. To the U. S. came 566 foreign-made cars. To Washington last week went Alvan Macauley, president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and of Packard Motor Co., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, R. I. Roberge, export manager of Ford Motor Co., Walter C. White, president of White Co. (trucks) and other automotive men. They went at the invitation of Pennsylvania's Senator David A. Reed, head of the Senate Finance Committee's subcommittee on metals...
...added that General Motors had no intention of shipping into the U. S. cars from its foreign plants, that these plants were made to supply cars to the countries in which they were located. He saw no danger of a foreign car invasion. Next came R. I. Roberge, Ford export manager. A peculiar aspect of the Roberge testimony was his insistence that he spoke for Son Edsel Ford, did not know what Father Henry Ford thought about auto tariffs. Asked why Henry Ford had not appeared, Mr. Roberge suprisingly replied that Henry Ford had received no invitation. After these qualifications...
...that Europe will multiply its motor registration by four in the next ten years. Nevertheless, U. S. motormen feel the "outside" world is the next great world to conquer. Just as Mr. Macauley considers that he has well established the Packard in the U. S., he?and General Motors, Ford, Chrysler et al.?can do it all over again abroad...
Labor turnover at the Ford plants, which recently were hiring 700 new men per day, is about 4% per month. Men under 30 have proved unstable, casual. Mr. Ford is proud of having jobs for men of all ages and Ford employe ages run from 18 to 70. Oldsters, including 20 blind men, are used in inspection work...