Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After meeting a pair of friends for lunch, the New Orleans lawyer ordered a Falstaff beer, touched a match to a Philip Morris cigarette, and settled comfortably back for a session of table talk. "Oh-oh," chided one of his friends, "I guess you drive a Ford, too." The remark had a point, and the lawyer caught it all too easily. He admitted that he did drive a Ford, but added: "I'm changing...
...parts of the Deep South, Ford, Falstaff and Philip Morris have been nicknamed "The Three Fs" and made the targets of an extraordinary whispering campaign and economic boycott. The charge: they have aided the cause of Negro equality. But the boycott movement goes far beyond the phonetic Fs and, as practiced by both whites and Negroes, has spread to nearly a score of other companies. Most of the affected companies are reluctant to discuss the subject. Says the general manager of the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Birmingham: "I could tell you a whole lot about...
...Knowing Smile. Of all the companies, Ford has probably been the most affected. It is blamed for the civil rights spending of the Fund for the Republic-over which the company has no control...
...they just smile at you." Adds W. M. Turner, a dealer in Selma, Ala.: "The criticism of the whites-and I'm sur prised at some of the intelligent people involved-hurts, and we haven't got the Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting its car windows with stickers, reading: "Built in the South by Mid-Southerners." One result: the slogan led to such gutter parodies as: "Built in Africa by Apes...
John DeTar's two-fisted approach has helped make him the family doctor's leading booster and a national figure in U.S. medicine. When he arrived in Milan (pop. 3,900) just out of internship at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he planned to return soon to the city and specialize in the growing field of pediatrics. But DeTar and his family (two sons, two daughters) found Milan pleasant and friendly, decided to stay...