Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to need more support from the tangled web of the city government's bewildered bureaucracy. Police and churches, too, come in for a share of the blame. The work of police youth squads has been criticized by many specialists. Says the Rev. George B. Ford, pastor of the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church: "There is a failure of the churches to reach out and seize the opportunity which exists. Segregation in the congregation enhances segregation on the streets. We segregate our housing projects by income. We drive out the more successful members, and we end up by encouraging...
...GERMAN FORDS will start rolling into U.S. foreign-car market (now 5% of all sales) next month. Ford will bolster its fast-moving line of English-made cars by bringing in 5,000 sporty "Taunus" models, which get up to 35 miles per gal. Cost: around...
...phenomenal. Middle-priced car production so far in 1958 is down 51% from the same period last year, far more than other sections of the industry. Production of Oldsmobile has dropped 44%; Buick, which was once in third place, 40%; De Soto 77%; Mercury 64%; Pontiac 31%; Dodge 70%. Ford's middle-priced Edsel, brought onto the market last year, is a flop...
...real drop of the middle-priced car has been brought about by Detroit itself. Until the 19403, the low-priced three-Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth -manufactured cheap, compact cars meant chiefly for transportation. As demand grew for wider and longer cars with more room and comfort, Detroit changed the once small cars into big ones. From 1938 to date, Chevrolet has grown two feet overall; Ford has grown four feet since 1928. Both are now bigger than the Pontiac, Packard or Oldsmobile of ten years...
...today, about the same as the 1955 Cadillac). Once major mechanical improvements were the exclusive property of more expensive autos, e.g., Oldsmobile's automatic shift; now lower-priced models have all of them. Among the lower-priced cars, it is the highest-priced models that are doing best. Ford sales are down, but its Thunderbird and Fairlane are selling best-to many people who a few years ago would have bought a middle-priced car. Sales of Chevrolet are neck-and-neck with 1957, with the biggest sellers its most expensive models, including the Impala...