Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poll count decreed that the National League start Cincinnati Redlegs at every position except first base. There, St. Louis' sturdy oldtimer Stan Musial managed to stand off the Redlegs' rooters. Though the balloting was perfectly legal under the somewhat farcical procedures followed by the big leagues, Commissioner Ford Frick felt compelled to step in last week and decree that the Redlegs may have only five starting positions. The All-Stars, Cincinnati public opinion notwithstanding, must have room for such as Hank Aaron and Willie Mays from other clubs...
Behind the industry's locked and guarded doors last week, the new models were already being warmed up for their attack on the 1958 market, and no one was taking much for granted. Ford will introduce a brand-new car in its medium-priced Edsel, G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac and Ford's Lincoln will be completely done over...
...more than any other company, to make sure that it does not miss igsS's style parade, as it did this year. Since both Buick and Oldsmobile had completely new bodies in 1957, they were slated for only a minor touch-up in 1958. But the competition from Ford's and Chrysler's low-and medium-priced designs has been so rugged that G.M. put on a crash redesign program, has revamped both cars completely. The General Motors line...
Chrysler & Ford. Chrysler, which made its big change last year and won back a 20% share of the market, will only freshen its fins, wait until 1960 for a major styling change, figuring that 1957's radical styling changes will keep it right up with the pack. Beyond higher horsepower, revised grilles and molding sweeps, all models from Plymouth through Imperial will be virtually unchanged, allowing the company to concentrate on higher production, better distribution and quality control to eliminate the one serious complaint of 1957: lack of structural rigidity, which engineers hope to solve by strengthening the frame...
...change of mind is the soaring U.S. sales of small foreign cars, which may double in 1957 to 200,000 (about 4% of the total U.S. market). While steady inroads on U.S. low-cost models are being made by such foreign standouts as West Germany's Volkswagen, Ford and American Motors have also been cashing in. In the first four months of this year, British Ford sales in the U.S. hit 3,201 v. 717 in the same period last year. Sales of American Motors Corp.'s Metropolitan, made by Austin of England...