Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...falcon cannot hear the falconer...
...long ago, the General Accounting Office caught accounting oversights in which the Hughes Aircraft Co. charged twice for a $150,000 tooling bill on the Falcon missile and failed to pass on to the Government a $103,000 saving in the price of materials. Hughes adjusted the errors when they were pointed...
BRATTLE: The Bogey festival continues apace. The Maltese Falcon, the current offering, is one of the very best of all. Dashiell Hammett's story has become the vehicle for Bogart's now immortal Sam Spade and Sidney Green-street's now equally immortal Fat Man. Ward Bond and Alicia Cook (and, of course, Peter Lorre). Evenings...
wheelbase v. Falcon's 109½-in., will become the low end of the standard Ford line. It will be aimed at a mass one-car family market, may eventually replace the standard Ford. The Canadian Y, with a 116½-in. wheelbase. will probably become the smaller Mercury. With its eye on Ford, Chevrolet is also getting ready an in-between car to be called the Corsair, with a wheelbase of 109-in., but added sheet metal that makes it look bigger...
...market." Some dealers complain that this proliferation confuses not only the customer but the salesman, too. Often compacts with different names are remarkably similar. General Motors' Olds F85 and Buick Special both have the same body shell and almost the same motor; Ford's Falcon and Comet have the same engine; the Chrysler Valiant and Lancer are lookalikes. Many dealers not only battle competitors but knock cars made by the same manufacturer. Dodge puts out a "confidential" booklet for Lancer salesmen pointing out the good features of the Lancer and the bad ones of the Valiant-though both...