Word: forded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down in the river bed, trucks were lumbering through a ford and up a goat path, newly bulldozed, where 25-pounder guns had been hauled up during the morning. Toward 3 in the afternoon, the brigadier announced: 'The spaghetti is cooked and the birds aflying.' He meant that the artillery was ready and the Spitfires were aloft. On the skyline, four miles across the valley, the artillery opened up and the infantry jumped...
Welcomed by the Detroit Institute of Arts was Mrs. Edsel Ford's $100,000 low relief in stone from her late husband's collection.* It was 15th Century Sculptor Desiderio da Settignano's Profile Portrait of a Young Woman, who managed to look both wistful and stately...
...tons in May, a new peacetime record, cutbacks resulting from the coal strike were still felt by motor-makers. General Motors closed down its Michigan operations and laid off 200,000 men for a week in order to accumulate enough steel for continuous production. The Ford Motor Co. closed down...
...gold-draped stage in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, the shiny new Ford makes its bow this week. It is a sleek, square-cut car only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame...
...June 18, when the cars go on display in dealers' showrooms, Ford expects to have production up to 3,786 a day. Even at that, said Sales Director J. R. Davis, it will be 1950 and perhaps 1951 before the average customer will be able to get immediate delivery from the average dealer...