Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's fears of serious labor troubles rose sharply. In Windsor, where a smoldering strike of 10,000 Ford Motor Co. of Canada workers entered its third month, there were signs of flame...
...belief that Young Henry would make the U.A.W. an ample offer. Young Henry wants more than anything else to make Ford first in automobiles. He also has a strong leaning toward his grandfather's tradition of high wages and low prices. If he could beat other motor manufacturers to the draw with a U.A.W. wage settlement, he might well be away out in front in the great race to feed the hungry market for new motorcars...
...them one based on the Russian alphabet, then introduced a proper selection of newspapers, magazines and books. The Tuvinians had lived mostly in bark tepees and felt yurts (tents); they followed their herds from pasture to pasture. The Bolsheviks collectivized the pastures, transformed the nomads into livestock farmers, built motor roads, distributed sewing machines, phonographs and radios, promoted cities like the Tuvinian capital, Kizilkhoto (I.e.,"Redtown,v pop. 10,000). The Bolsheviks put even Buddhist monks to work. They also introduced drugstores...
Then, on a soberer note, he sat down and wrote his employes: "Throughout the war, [motor transportation systems] have suffered substantial losses. . . . They have been drowned between millstones, increasing costs of operation . . . because of wages . . . lessened efficiency of labor, increased costs of parts and maintenance . . . inability to obtain new trucks, and the inflexibility of rate structures...
...knows where OPA will set the ceiling price for Detroit's new cars. But last week, OPA said flatly what prices are above the ceiling. It turned down a request of the Ford Motor Co., the first to apply for a 10-to-15% increase in 1942 car prices. The OPA suggested that Ford modify its increase, but did not say how much. This put Ford's round-faced sales manager, John Raymond Davis, on the hottest competitive spot in the industry...