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...used to meet G.M. friends for a Sunday round of golf, now only nod perfunctorily when they bump into the G.M. crowd at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club. G.M. blames Ford for giving in last summer to the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther on the guaranteed annual wage. Fordmen blame G.M. for keeping silent while Reuther turned on Ford first...
...Ford Motor Co. plants in Antwerp and Passy (France) were badly damaged by Allied bombs. Ford plants in Yokohama and Shanghai are likely to be more rubble before Fordmen see them again...
Mercury has lavish, rustless steel grilles, widely flared fenders protected by heavy bumpers. Instead of spreading the parking lights (as did most makers) Fordmen set them close to the center line...
Ford's $700,000,000 defense job could be more easily comprehended. Fordmen led reporters through the great new Ford aircraft-engine plant where the first of 9,043 huge 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney radials are being built, under a license agreement that will give United Aircraft Corp. a royalty of only $1 an engine. Completed in eleven months, the $37,000,000 plant is turning out one engine a day, should produce 300 a month by year...
Meanwhile. in Detroit, Fordmen plugged on with the production of parts for Consolidated bombers (TIME, Feb. 3), tested a new Ford-designed 1,500-h.p. air craft engine, saw workmen finishing the building where Ford will turn out 4,500 2,000-h.p. P. & W. engines for bombers, beginning early in the summer...