Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford Motor Co. last week finally made up its mind about the question roiling Detroit (TIME, May 15): are foremen laborers or an arm of management? By signing a contract with the aggressive Foreman's Association of America, an independent union, Ford answered: foremen are laborers. This was the first formal contract which the two-and-a-half-year-old union had won from management...
These birds wore the uniform of our country, some with gold eagles, some with just one, and they arrived in a cavalcade of motor cars. When the band played the national anthem we were at attention facing them. Some of them just kept on smoking, one sat on the fender of his car, a dozen or more took their caps off civilian style...
...time grew shorter, procurement got harder. Typical was a hurry-up order for 7,000 big truck tractor and semitrailer vehicles. A.S.F. men grabbed 800 from Army units in the U.S., picked up 200 here & there, cut back production of six other kinds of motor vehicles in U.S. plants to give the trucks priority. They got them built and shipped them...
...Potez biplane by taking off during a strafing by 25 Messerschmitts and flying to his home in Kraljevo. Ten days later, when the armistice was announced, he joined the new Partisan movement, became the leader of 200 men. His band grew to 1,500. They once attacked a German motor column by rolling an airplane bomb fitted with dynamite blocks and lighted fuses down a mountainside. The bomb blew up 25 trucks, two armored cars, 200 Germans-and the enemy did not try that road again...
...Henry Ford celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary. It was also Mrs. Ford's 77th birthday. Mr. Ford spiced his anniversary week with a motor-company promotion (to an executive vice-presidency: his grandson, 26-year-old Henry Ford II) and a personal repudiation (of demagogic Gerald L. K. Smith, who had publicly declared that his brand of nationalism was like Ford's). Said potent Ford Spokesman Harry H. Bennett: "I want to state definitely for Mr. Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh, and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his supporters, nothing is farther...