Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five months ago began the onslaught of insurgent Labor upon Motors and Steel. Corporation by corporation John L. Lewis' organizing drive captured positions in these two great open-shop industries. By last week it had gained about two-thirds of Motors, better than half of Steel. Last week the United Automobile Workers were storming at the gates of Motors' inner citadel, Ford Motor Co. The Steel Work ers Organizing Committee, having cap tured biggest U. S. Steel and most of the small fry, was pounding at the defense of three big steel independents: Republic, Youngstown, Inland. On both...
...vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step was to distribute the handbills to the 9,000 River Rouge workmen...
Personnel director of Ford Motor Co., as well as head Of its company police (known as "servicemen") is Henry H. Bennett. This master of tough men occupies a special place in the esteem of mild Henry Ford, perhaps because he has for years been responsible for protecting the Ford grandchildren from kidnapping of which the senior Ford is mortally afraid. One of Mr. Bennett's privileges is that he, almost alone of Ford lieutenants can speak to the press in his own name. Last week Mr. Bennett declared...
Black as caviar was the shore with crowds squinting through telescopes, among them what British police admitted was the largest collection of foreign spies and counterspies ever to attend a British function. Of the British ships in line they were particularly anxious to see the new fast torpedo-carrying motor boats, the square-sterned anti-submarine net-layers Protector and Guardian and the antiaircraft ships, Coventry and Curlew. Old light cruisers about ready to be decommissioned, these ships have had, their superstructures swept clear and their decks jammed with batteries of the very latest electrophonic anti-aircraft guns and high...
...second possibility is ignition from motor exhaust or sparks. I would like to very definitely decline this possibility. We have made such exhaustive tests of temperatures and the operation of Diesel engines. ... In our years of experience it has never happened that gas has been ignited by sparks while being valved...