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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...
...German refugee from the galleries of Paris, London and Berlin, Curt Valentin settled in Manhattan four years ago, opened a gallery with the help of art-loving Motor Scion Walter P. Chrysler Jr., for whom he had bought many a picture. He quickly made a name as one of the most progressive and choosy of syth Street's art impresarios. But morose Impresario Valentin dislikes selling pictures, would rather have a job in a museum. Says he sadly: "Gallery business is sometimes fun, but I hate having to make money...
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...