Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warned Ford, prices would go up, too. "Prices, as we see them today, can't go anywhere but up. There is no place else for them to go. Prices are high-maybe too high-but we can't lower them without lowering wages and material costs. I wish we had a buyer's market today. We are living in a fool's paradise...
...twelve, nothing has meant anything to me except painting.") But while his father brought knights, pirates and Scottish chiefs to life, illustrating books like Treasure Island and the Boys' King Arthur, young Andrew became more & more fascinated with illustrating the little universe around him-at Chadds Ford, Pa., where he was born, and down east in Maine, where the family spent its summers. He lives now with his wife and two sons within a mile of his Pennsylvania birthplace...
There were plenty of signs it would end sooner than expected. Said Henry Ford II: "A customer can usually get a high-priced car today without waiting." It might be a year and a half before cars become plentiful-but "then again it might be six months...
...million in the first seven months of the year in low trade-ins, tips and doodad accessories. There was nothing illegal about the deals. But Committee Chairman W. Kingsland Macy trumpeted that the auto industry "must police its own backyard" or face mandatory price controls. To police the backyard, Ford had already fired 23 dealers for grey marketeering. Most carmakers, while holding their own prices far under true market values, had actively campaigned against it. This week General Motors notified the Kearney agency that its franchise was canceled "effective immediately." But automen knew that, controls or not, there was just...
Poor Sales. In Detroit, almost any car except Chevrolet, Plymouth and Ford could be bought right off showroom floors without trade-ins. DeSotos and Chryslers could be had with only a few dollars worth of extras (v. a postwar average of about $280 worth for all cars) while Packards could be bought "bare" (without accessories), a sign that the market was down. And across the U.S. used-car dealers were suffering their worst slump since...