Word: reith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd vent its bitterness on the exiled David. They had parted as brothers: "D & I said goodbye, kissed, parted as freemasons & he bowed to me as his King," his diary noted, and he was not going to see him deprived of all honor in his former kingdom. Sir John Reith of the BBC wanted to introduce David in his farewell speech as "Mr. Edward Windsor." On King George's insistence, he became instead His Royal Highness Prince Edward...
...only public statement I can recall making on this subject in recent years was in the course of one of the Reith Lectures, delivered last fall in London over the BBC. Here I said: "... I would not wish to say that there is never a time for summit meetings. There is a time for almost everything in the strange world of diplomacy. But surely, if the usefulness of these senior figures is to be protected and the raising of false hopes avoided, such meetings should occur, if at all, at the end of the negotiating process, and for the purpose...
...continued division of Europe into heavily armed NATO and Communist sectors, said Kennan in the Reith Lectures on the BBC in London, will eventually make war inevitable. "I am not particularly concerned to learn whether our Soviet friends could, if they wished, destroy us. seven times over or only four times; nor do I think that the answer to this danger lies in the indefinite multiplication of our own present ability to do fearful injury to them. Our problem is no longer to prevent people from acquiring the ability to destroy us; it is too late for that. Our problem...
...trouble. The first postwar model of the Vedette, its bestseller, was brought out in November 1948 with a 67-h.p. engine* that proved underpowered for the weight of the car. It sold well until the sellers' market disappeared. Then French Ford began to lose money. Jack Reith and a team of experts were sent over from Detroit early last year to put the company on its feet. They cut labor and materials costs, produced 20,338 passenger cars in 1953 and converted a $2,000,000 loss in 1952 to a profit of $1,000,000 last year. Reith...
Target: 700 Cars a Day. Reith convinced U.S. Ford, which owns 55% of the French company's stock, that it would be best to merge with Simca. This gives Simca Ford's 60-acre plant at Poissy, eleven miles from Paris, with 4,500 workers and 3,000 machine tools, plus its own 55-acre plant at Nanterre, with 9,000 workers and 3,200 machines. Production next year is scheduled at 500 Aronde and 200 Vedette passenger cars a day, about 40% of the French market. The new Vedette so impressed foreign dealers that the Belgian distributor...