Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Ellsworth R. Schindler, a Seneca Indian, was working last year in the Detroit plant of Ford Motor Co. he contracted with Contract Purchasing Corp. of Detroit to buy a 1936-model Dodge for $500 in installments. When he lost his job last December he went home to Cattaraugus Reservation, taking with him his car, on which he still owed $296. Receiving no more payments from him, the credit company sought to repossess...
Spokesmen for Ford Motor Co. and C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America continued to speak to each other last week. They began to do so three weeks ago, when U. A. W. President Homer Martin conferred with Henry Ford and his personnel director, Harry Bennett (TIME...
...cooperation between non-union Ford and U. A. W.'s Martin. The New York Times's, soundly informed Reporter Louis Stark wrote: "It may be possible that Homer Martin . . . will be able to make an important announcement covering the union's future relations with the Ford Motor Co." With Ford's help, Mr. Martin was able to say last week: "It [the parts agreement] has more potentialities than any other single thing in American labor history." Chances of recognition of the U. A. W. by Henry Ford himself, last major holdout, Homer Martin would not discuss...
...solution bathed the nerve trunks of organs involved in childbirth and effectively killed pain. The efficiency of motor nerves which aid in propelling a child out of the birth canal was not impaired. Chief merit of the new drugs is that each has a different length of action, and doctors predicting the length of labor can inject a drug with sufficiently lasting effects...
...Tentatively ended two antitrust suits. The Department of Justice for the second time (TIME, Nov. 22) had charged that Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp. and General Motors Corp. compelled their dealers to finance purchases through manufacturer-affiliated finance companies. Last week the Department tentatively accepted a consent decree under which Ford and Chrysler agree to discontinue certain practices. General Motors is expected to fight the indictment in court November...