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...Ford Motor Co. last week ended a three-year-old experiment with a foreman's union. The experiment, said Ford, had "failed hopelessly." The company withdrew its recognition of the independent Foreman's Association of America, whose six-week strike against Ford had hardly put a nick in production. The company stated that it had originally signed an F.A.A. contract-the first in the auto industry-in hopes of making the foremen a more effective part of management. Instead, relations had become so bad that the company now felt that such unions were "unsound in principle...
...auto workers, the plan was as revolutionary as Henry Ford's $5-a-day wage in 1914. This time it was Henry Ford II who pioneered in industrial statesmanship. He agreed to U.A.W. demands for a pension plan covering the Ford Motor Co.'s 107,000 workers in the Rouge and 32 other plants. The union estimates that some 5,000 workers are eligible for retirement at once...
...motor was all afire and it seemed to have spread to the wing. I looked up and through the fire I could see bright stars...
...Suddenly there was a hard jar, just like when a tooth is pulled and you feel it crunch. The burning motor had fallen loose. The wing kept burning and we were coming down...
Currently, United has a fat backlog of $315,000,000, second largest in the industry. For an aircraft company, it is fairly well diversified. Its P. & W. motors are being used in the DC-6, Boeing's new Stratocruiser and in nine other new planes now going into production. But the smooth ride has not lulled Rentschler and friends into thinking there may not be rough air ahead, stirred up by jet engines. Two months ago, United acquired the right to build and sell Rolls-Royce's turbojet engine, the Nene. In addition, P. & W. is developing...