Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SEARCH EVER SINCE BY WORCESTER TELEGRAM AND EVENING GAZETTE. [NEW] IMPETUS WITH TIME [JAN. 6] NOMINATION, DAY CITY EDITOR HENRY FORD TO STAFF: "FIND HER." BAIT: THREE DAYS...
...more than the usual midwinter slump. It was dollars-&-cents evidence that the buyers' market in used cars-and eventually in new cars as well-was uncomfortably close for dealers. And car prices were still high by prewar standards. Production of "1947 models" by General Motors and Ford in the next months, even though model changes were hardly noticeable, would knock used-car prices down still more...
...Ford Motor Co.'s sales manager John R. Davis announced more bad news for the second-hand dealers: late this year Ford will start producing 1948 models that will show "the greatest change since the introduction of the Model A twenty years ago." And, he added, they would be cheaper than present models...
...Ohio State he saw Harold Lloyd in The Freshman, bought a yellow slicker and an open Ford, and was pledged by Sigma Chi, which never got over it. The fraternity has since elected him-like Cartoonist McCutcheon before him-to its select group of "Significant Sigs" (others: Booth Tarkington, Roy Chapman Andrews and George...
...Heroes. As in every melee, few heroes stood out. G.E.'s Charles E. Wilson cried-and tried-to hold prices, but was swept upwards with the rest. Young Henry Ford II's determined effort to fix union responsibility fell short. Henry J. Kaiser might have turned out to be the hero of the year if he had turned out cars the way he had turned out his ships. But his car-making stuttered along like an 1896 horseless carriage. For great performance, U.S. business had no Man of the Year...