Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond calculation. It remained to be seen, for example, how much or little of Congress' cuts would in fact have to be made up with deficiency appropriations. In 1960, say, after the last tremor of the 1957 budget battle has died away, a university professor may wangle a Ford Foundation grant to figure out the score. If, with the help of half a dozen accountants and an electronic brain, he comes up with a fair and accurate estimate, it will be a lot smaller than Harry Byrd's $6.5 billion-and a lot bigger than Dwight Eisenhower...
...Siren Left. Only 30 miles before Geelong, an Aussie Ford missed a sharp turn at 70 m.p.h., skidded through a fence and wound up with its rear wheels hanging over a small cliff. That first casualty lost the rally its only car equipped with a siren for scaring off kangaroos...
Just before the rally began, the finance company seized one contestant's Fiat. The jack-booted driver of an Australian Ford showed up with his rear seat cramped by an ice-cream-packed icebox. The crew of a Queensland Volkswagen whooped it up in American Indian headdress. But most of the competitors in the 10,563-mile, round-Australia Mobilgas Rally who started west from Melbourne last month spent their last spare minutes sensibly checking safety equipment. They would have to drive a distance more than one-third the circumference of the earth, bounce over the worst...
...Ford!" cracked one. "It's not a whodunit, but a hedunit," cried another, in good doughboy English...
...FORD'S EDSEL is off to a fast start. On first sales day, company took orders for 6,649 cars, and more than 2,500,000 auto fans went to showrooms to view new model. Present production, level: more than...