Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wishers last year paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list of 800,000), the auto industry sent big men: a General Motors vice president, a Ford vice president, and a Chrysler industrial-relations executive. One reason: Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters truck most of America's cars...
...West was a wreck: they had lost five out of seven games, seen their lead over the Sox dwindle to 32 games. Their pitching staff was riddled with walking wounded: Little Bobby Shantz, who had carried the Yanks all summer, was nursing a sore pitching finger; Whitey Ford was worried with a shoulder that throbbed whenever he thought of throwing; World Series Hero Don Larsen was in disrepair. Their heaviest hitter, Center Fielder Mickey Mantle, was hobbled with shin splints; he was limping to the plate on legs taped from ankle to thigh. No game counts more than another...
...Third Game belonged to the ancient of the Yankees, Enos Slaughter, 41. The tireless outfielder, who gets his pep from a diet of blackstrap molasses and sunflower-seed oil, waited until the eleventh inning, while Whitey Ford, his sore arm suddenly healthy, held the Sox to a 1-to-1 tie. Then, Enos stepped to the plate, took an effortless swing at the first pitch and sent the ball high and far into the right center-field stands. After Hank Bauer's third-inning homer, that was all the Yankees needed to win, 2-1, and head home with...
...formal premiere of Ford's new Edsel in Detroit last week, Chairman Ernest R. Breech let the first cat out of the. Big Three bag on a subject everyone has been wondering about: the price tags on 1958's cars. Ford's prices, said Breech, are going up. Best guess: an average boost of $100 per car. The main reason is that "the public apparently desires significant changes every year," as Ford discovered in 1956, when General Motors' heavily facelifted Chevrolet left the competition far behind. To win its current lead in 1957, Ford spent...
...production increase is exactly what Detroit's automakers hope to achieve for the rest of this year and next. Despite a near-record backlog of unsold 1957 models. Henry Ford II upped his sales forecast of last May by another 200,000 cars, predicted a total of 6,000,000 this year. The company's dealer orders are bigger than the production goals in several lines. Chrysler's cars are still selling well, and even General Motors, whose 1957 Buick and Oldsmobile models have fallen behind, expects no real trouble preparing for major model changeovers...