Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford Hibbard...
...DeLuxe, $1,251; Chrysler Royal, $1,353; Pontiac Six, $1,127; Oldsmobile, $1,163; Buick, $1,250; Cadillac, $1,794; Nash, $1,119; Packard Six, $1,510; Hudson, $1,257; Lincoln, $1,919; Mercury, $1,241; Studebaker, $1,158. The new prices are substantially above those of 1942. Example: Ford DeLuxe four-door sedan will be $995 instead...
Young Henry Ford II, quietly signing up a new team to help run his empire, last week found the quarterback. He hired Ernest Robert Breech, 49, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., as executive vice president and director, at a salary guesstimated at over $200,000. Breech will furnish what the company has needed-an overall coordinator second in command to Young Henry. A man who can shrewdly keep tabs on the complexities of costs, production and marketing, Ernie Breech is regarded as one of the ablest men in the auto and aviation industries...
...rest of the cast successfully immerses itself in the galvanic carnival spirit, with enough bravura to match the elegance and color of the costuming and the traditional splendor of the deep-cut sets. Ruth Ford, a fetching Roxane, knows the coquette routine thoroughly, though at times she plays it over-precious. The supporting characters are without depth, as the playwright drew them, and beyond Hiram Sherman's foppish Ragineau, there was little opportunity for scene stealing...
...World War I he served two years with the Spahis Algeriens, then served with the Belgian War Purchasing Commission in London. (To do so, he learned English in 15 days.) After that he served on a dozen government missions, became vice president of the Ford Motor Co. of Belgium and, in 1939, Belgium's Finance Minister. When Belgium fell, he was the first Minister to arrive in London, just before the heavy air raids started. By that time he held the portfolios of finance, war, navy, economic affairs in the government-in-exile...