Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, an accurate appraisal of the empire's financial position. * Over the past six years, the company's net profits after taxes totaled $870 million (see table), more than the entire worth of the company when young Henry took over. To the thousands of people invited to Dearborn for the anniversary celebration, there were many other things about the new empire which the three brothers were proud to talk about - or show...
...Dearborn, a new $80 million Engineering & Research Laboratory was opened, giving Ford its first research facilities as up-to-date as G.M.'s. In it, hundreds of scientists and engineers will not only seek ways to improve cars, but will work on pure research. ¶ A new Continental is tentatively scheduled for 1956 to try to recapture the prestige of the old Lincoln Continental, which many automobile buffs still consider the best-looking U.S. car ever made. ¶A new hard-top convertible, the Syrtis, is also scheduled for '56. Its metal top slides into the luggage compartment...
...boxer who had become a top power in the company, was the man who barred the doors. But it was Ford himself who was responsible for the union-busting as his veteran secretary, Ernest Liebold, made clear in a tape recording for the archives: "Nobody was doing anything around Dearborn . . . that Mr. Ford didn't agree with 100%." In 1941, when the C.I.O. had ringed the Rouge plant with pickets and barricaded the entrances, the unpredictable Henry Ford suddenly sent word that he would not only deal with the union but give it everything it wanted-closed shop, checkoff...
...Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky's dreams to blow up when the attempt was made to connect them to the surging voltages...
...selection of Henry Ford papers, which will be placed in the Ford archives in Dearborn, Mich, next spring, was exhibited in Washington. Among them was a letter written in the childish scrawl of his son, the late Edsel Ford, and dated 1901, two years before the first model T went into production: "Dear Santa Claus: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think...