Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always be risks, and there'll always be accidents, but we can cut out a lot of the harum-scarum stuff without spoiling the thrills," Schindler says. With the development of the brutish little Offenhauser motors, midgets today seldom hide under the cowl outboard motors or souped-up Ford engines. Modern midgets have hit as high as 142 m.p.h. on a straightaway. On the small tracks, the doodlebugs have a ceiling of about 75 m.p.h., since chauffeurs have to negotiate a new curve every four or five seconds...
...Yorkers watched their highways for four miracle Fords which, it was said, went 60 miles per gallon of gasoline, could also be run by atomic energy, and (as some heard it) sprouted wings at the touch of a button. The cars had escaped somehow from a secret research lab. Answering his 50th phone call, Ford's North Eastern Regional Manager Charles J. Seyffer said wearily: "It's the heat." ¶Three hundred members of "Tall Clubs" (men must be 6 ft. 2 in. or over, women 5 ft. 10 in.), met in Chicago, filed their annual pleas...
Comeback. Harry Ferguson, who lost his tractor supplier when Henry Ford II bowed out (TIME, July 21, 1947), completed a new $11.5 million, 72-acre factory in Detroit. He expects to get into production in 60 days, turn out 250 tractors a day within a year...
This week the pressure was high against Ford Motor Co., which had not boosted wages like General Motors, Chrysler and other motormakers. Ford's 110,000 workers had voted to strike, but few United Auto Workers' officials expected that it would come to that. They expected a raise similar to the 9% increase given last week to Ford's 25,500 white-collar workers...
Hope for a Future. The one hope for the Amazon is to grow rubber trees in plantations. Henry Ford tried it and failed. His plantations succumbed to leaf rot. When Ford sold out for a nominal price to the Brazilian government, the Instituto Agronômico took over where he left off. Today Dr. Camargo has turned Fordlandia into a plantation for growing hardwood trees and cacao, and breeding water buffalo. But 90 miles downstream at Belterra, he has 2,225,000 healthy rubber trees growing...