Word: forded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were humming. There were no critical consumers' shortages anywhere. People were already getting used to such products of the postwar dream world as television and home laundries. One U.S. steamship company was ready to lay down the largest, most luxurious passenger ship in U.S. maritime history; the new Ford would soon be unveiled...
...Dearborn this week, Benson Ford took his turn at the family steering wheel. Out of his Lincoln-Mercury Motor Division he rolled two sleek new low-slung cars-the 1949 model Lincolns. The Ford Motor Co., first of the Big Three to make radical body changes in all its cars, had spent $90 million doing it. Ben Ford's Lincolns were the first models unwrapped...
...effect, Ford has designed a new Lincoln model to fill the competitive gap left by the Lincoln Zephyr, abandoned in 1941. Next week, Ben Ford will bring out his new Mercury. It has been spruced up to make it a stouter competitor to De Soto, Pontiac, and the light Oldsmobiles and Buicks. It is bigger and will probably cost more than the 1948 Mercury...
There were other stirrings in Bizonia. In Ruesselsheim, General Motors' Opel factory shipped 24 Opel Olympia two-door sedans to Belgium, Opel's first automobile exports since war's end. Young Henry Ford II visited his Cologne plant and promised to expand it into the biggest automobile factory in Europe...
...Overland Motors, Inc. to stop advertising that it had created or designed the "jeep." Said FTC: although Willys-Overland "made an outstanding contribution in its powerful engine as well as in other features of the vehicle," the credit belonged jointly to four companies-Willys-Overland, American Bantam Car Co., Ford Motor Co., Spicer Manufacturing Co. (now Dana Corp.)-and the Army...