Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he quit. In Denmark he had worked in a bicycle plant and he now became bench hand in the John R. Keim Mills at Buffalo, a bicycle factory which was branching into automobile parts. In less than four years he was assistant manager; in five, manager. When Henry Ford bought the Keim Mills in 1911, "Bill" Knudsen found himself, like many another oldtime bicycle man, in the stripling automobile industry...
...Ford's production manager in his great expansion period, Motorman Knudsen had a prime hand in creating modern mass production. He had a front-trench post during the young industry's war for survival in which hundreds of motor manufacturers were killed off. A $50,000-a-year Fordman in 1921, he next year entered General Motors as adviser to a vice president. Three years after he was president of Chevrolet. There his production genius is credited with forcing Ford to give up Model T for Model A. When a new job was created...
...Unionist Martin bolstered his case by charging that G. M.'s employes were not so well off as those of other motor manufacturers. Studebaker, he declared, had lately upped its 87?-per-hour average pay by increases of 5? to 25?. As for labor relations, he asserted, only Ford was worse than...
...strikes which last week continued to keep U. S. plate glass production almost at a standstill (TIME, Dec. 28). Though Chrysler was reported to have begun importing glass from Belgium, in rumor-ridden Detroit it was widely believed that Chrysler and every other motor manufacturer except Ford, which makes some glass of its own, would soon have to shut down for lack of glass...
Robert Taylor lives in a small Beverly Hills house, keeps a Ford coupe for going to work and a Packard convertible for pleasure, has a valet. He wears berets, blue and white checked bathrobes, blue linen beach suits. Last summer, his association with Barbara Stanwyck was the most publicized Hollywood romance of the year outside of Mary Astor's. Currently, the Stanwyck-Taylor partnership, one of the conventions of which was that each gave the other an expensive present every week, is thought to be cooling. Last week, Robert Taylor announced he would travel to Washington with Jean Harlow...