Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference, he put his mood in a parable about Ford Motor Co. According to the NLRB and a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ford has violated the Wagner Act. Yet the company has received contracts to make aircraft engines, a fleet of tiny armored cars for the Army...
...President stopped there. He left the correspondents to finish his parable, draw its moral : that of course Ford Motor Co. was up to its ears in trouble with NLRB, but the U. S. now had a higher objective. The objective was national de fense, and that objective was going to be attained, regardless of Ford Motor Co.'s labor policy...
...Clair Motor Car Co.; after a stroke; in Detroit. As Ford's right-hand man for 16 years, he designed the Model T. As one of the nation's foremost metallurgists, he sponsored the use of vanadium and molybdenum steels in automobile construction, was busy perfecting a new alloy (amola) at the time of his death...
...reviewing what led to the siege of Bardia, the Libyan commander passed the buck neatly to Rome, laying blame for his defeat on lack of motor transport and of armored power. "For the purpose of economizing transportation some units covered hundreds of kilometres afoot. . . . We lacked only a complement of motor vehicles which, as you know, were pouring in from the mainland." "Pouring in" was probably a gross exaggeration, considering the work of the British Fleet, which periodically prowled across the Italian sea lane to Libya...
Best talent: Jack Gilford, who does an imitation, at once funny and narcotic, of a man trying to stay awake at a pep meeting of the "Hoard Motor Co." Typical piece of ragtime sociology: a mass strip number exposing union labels...