Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular case before the overworked National Labor Relations Board at the moment is Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel...
...weeks ago U. A. W. announced another attempt to pass out literature at the Rouge plant but the plan was suddenly abandoned. Newshawks and photographers had risen at dawn to be on hand. When nothing happened Harry Bennett invited them in for breakfast in the Administration Building, where Ford executives lunch each day. Henry Ford had apparently decided he needed the Press on his side.* After the Battle of the Overpass, Mr. Bennett's service men had ripped notebooks from reporters' hands, confiscated films, chased one photographer for five miles until he took refuge in a police station...
...Bennett's hospitality the reporters and cameramen proved the Labor Board's best witnesses. Opening his hearings in Detroit three weeks ago, the Labor Board trial examiner, John T. Lindsay, confined the early sessions to the Battle of the Overpass, though Louis J. Colombo, the Ford lawyer, protested that that was a matter for local officials, not the Labor Board. Mr. Colombo, senior partner of Detroit's Colombo, Colombo & Colombo, is often compared in voice, ability and courtroom manner to another famed lawyer of Italian extraction, Manhattan's Ferdinand Pecora. During the hearings Lawyer Colombo...
...Standard Oil." C. WThile automobile men talked of impending higher prices, off the assembly line in Flint, Mich, rolled the 13.ooo.oooth Chevrolet, just eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations...
Present Calcutta price for jute is 3¾? per lb.; for burlap, 3¾? per yd. Of all burlap imported from India, about 35% goes for automobile accessories, furniture wrapping and backing for linoleum and carpets. Ford Motor Co. used to buy 1,000,000 yds. a month for Model T upholstery. But the principal use for burlap is in sacks. In 1930 U. S. sack manufacturers made 525,000,000 burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap...