Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employee of Ford's assembly line at Port Elizabeth shown in your photograph is attired for the job he is performing, that of grinding, not welding, as indicated in the caption...
Dick Strout, 80, at President's left. Covered Calvin Coolidge. Still reporting. Charley Bartlett across table. Introduced Jack Kennedy to Jackie Bouvier. J.F. terHorst off to left, Once Jerry Ford's press secretary, Ike's favorite, Roscoe Drummond, on duty. Des Moines, Los Angeles, Baltimore ready to ask questions. President does not eat. Already been up several hours. He sips water. Puffy eyes. Still tired from Camp David. Delicious fatigue. New spirit in room. Respect from press. Carter easier. Abe Lincoln looking benignly down from the wall, chin in hand, elbow on knee. Carter with chin...
...movie An American Romance, the destitute hero walks into an iron mine, begins working and is soon hired on as a regular hand. But, as Anthony Opat, 19, has found, life unhappily does not imitate art in this situation, at least not at the Ford Motor Co.'s stamping plant in Woodhaven, Mich...
...purely volunteer status, the plant's personnel department paid him $218 for his work and, according to Opat, promised him a job if he would keep his mouth shut. After two weeks without further word from the plant, Opat began talking to the press. "No comment," said a Ford spokesman to all inquiries. And so far, no job for Opat either...
...because they already produce them abroad. According to a confidential State Department study, U.S. multinationals in 1970 were producing $200 billion worth of goods abroad. That was nearly five times greater than total U.S. exports and, if anything, the gap has widened. The large American multinationals, such as GM, Ford, ITT, Kodak and IBM, understandably do not wish to undercut their foreign operations by increasing exports of finished products from the U.S. To a degree, multinationals benefit the U.S. because much of their profit is returned home in the form of retained earnings ($20 billion...