Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week for every automobile manufacturer but one, fourth-quarter production totals were well above the mark of a year ago (biggest gainer: Ford). Fourth-quarter sales were enormously up. The one whose production was down-to zero -was Chrysler Corp., beset for seven weeks by C.I.O. trouble...
...City (pop. 16,000), where she rooms with a private family, Miss Margaret Campbell got up at 5:45 (it was still dark) one morning last week When she was dressed, in a neat blue silk blouse and a blue wool skirt, she went outdoors to start her 1933 Ford coupe and her day. Miss Campbell, 26, teaches school in a typical one-room country schoolhouse. In such schools, 2,500,000 U. S. children get their education...
...Hyde Park, got his specially-designed Ford stuck hubdeep in Dutchess County swampland, was unstuck by Secret Service...
Significance. When prosecution loomed, Ford and Chrysler accepted consent decrees, agreeing not to compel dealers to use their finance companies, provided that General Motors stood trial and lost. General Motors, carrying the ball for the big three, expects to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The final decision in G. M.'s case will determine whether the 370-odd independent U. S. finance companies can cut themselves in on the profitable installment business of the motor industry...
...Ford: 42 body and chassis types, 6 wheelbases, three motor sizes (60, 85, 90 h.p.), prices from $675 to $985. Sealed beam headlights and swank Ford car hoods are features of city models...