Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies is about the least exciting spectacle that the major leagues can provide. Nonetheless, in Cincinnati last week 20,000 spectators-about 900% more than normal-crowded Crosley Field to examine such a contest. In the crowd were baseball dignitaries like President Ford Frick of the National League, President William Harridge of the American League. Signal for the performance to start was not the umpire's cry of "Play ball!" but another gesture, equally perfunctory but far more impressive-the pushing of a button in Washington by President Roosevelt. What made...
...room at the forge plant. Hudson has a glee club and a band. General Motors has an orchestra and a chorus of 400, some of them foundrymen, some division managers, some electroplaters and one a patent attorney. Buick men sing in the Industrial Mutual Association Glee Club in Flint. Ford has no chorus, no orchestra of its own but boys in the Henry Ford Trade School are proud of their German Band. Ford uses the regular Detroit Symphony for its radio concerts...
...Henry Ford was just a successful manufacturer of a popular low-priced car. By the next morning he was the most-discussed man in the world. On that date Henry Ford announced a minimum wage for all employes...
Coming at a time when $2 was a good day's pay and mass production was yet unnamed, "the Ford idea" was a frontpage sensation, overshadowing Mexican war news and provoking violent controversy. The Detroit automaker was praised as an "inspired millionaire," accused of shrewd self-interest, damned as a dangerous Socialist. In seven days Manhattan newspapers carried a total of 52 columns of Ford stories. Radicals feared that Mr. Ford was buying his workers' souls with a few extra dollars per week; conservatives were concerned about employes "spending their money foolishly." And out of the deafening hubbub...
...Ford upped the minimum to $6 where it stayed until 37 days after the stockmarket crash ten years later. Then in a singlehanded attempt to stay the Depression he raised the rate to $7. But by 1932, when Ford Motor Co. succeeded in losing $74,000,000 in twelve short months, the minimum was down to $4. Last year Mr. Ford restored the pre-War scale. Last week he upped it to $6. More than one-half the 126,000 Ford employes on present payrolls benefited by the raise. The rest, who earn more than the minimum, were rewarded with...