Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changeover cost Ford $209 million, "more money than any other introduction in our history," said Henry Ford II last week. "It is the first car in which we have been able to embody all the advantages of our new facilities and the talent of our new management team...
Much of the credit for Ford's change belongs to one of the new team's least-known members: natty, quiet-spoken Lew Crusoe, 61, production boss. Minnesota-born Crusoe, a onetime forester, rose to become Fisher Body controller for General Motors, quit in 1945 to raise Herefords. A few months later a call from Bendix Aviation's Ernest Breech lured him back from cows to horsepower; when Breech went to fast-slipping Ford the next year, along went Crusoe. Accounting Expert Crusoe supervised the day-today unraveling of the tangled finances left by old Henry, after...
With two body sizes, Ford expects to get a competitive edge on both Chevrolet and Plymouth. Early next year, the next step will be taken by Mercury when it brings out a bigger version of the standard model, enabling it to compete with Buick, whose models range up and down the price line from Chevrolet to Cadillac. Introduction of Ford's new "E" model next fall will complete the line, give Ford an equivalent to the Oldsmobile, thus duplicating G.M. in every price range...
Hank Holmes, Crimson left outside, scored the winning goal midway through the first overtime period on a pass across the mouth of the goal from Ken McIntosh. McIntosh, right outside, accounted for the other two Crimson markers. Ford and Hall scored for Amherst...
...game started slowly, with both teams playing defensively. Ford put the Lord Jeffs ahead eight minutes into the second period, but McIntosh tied the score a minute and a half later. The Crimson forward put the varsity ahead, 2 to 1, late in the same period...