Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will require action of some kind to solve." His biggest objection: the Big Three last year accounted for 95.7% of auto sales v. 94.4% in 1954. While General Motors kept a 50.3% share of the market, Chrysler boosted its share from 12.9% to 17.1%-"at the expense of Ford and not General Motors...
Several monts later, the Wall Street Journal announced that the Law School would publish a world tax service in conjunction with the United Nations and the Ford Foundation. In the February, 1955, Law School Bulletin, an article by William Sprague Barnes of the Law School revealed the essential points of Puente's plan, McInerney said...
...trying to appease the dealers. Chrysler, which has forbidden dealers to use Chrysler, Dodge or Plymouth in their corporate names, will now permit them to do so. General Motors President Harlow Curtice last week invited G.M. dealers to a conference this week on common problems. At the same time, Ford announced a package of wholesale price cuts (some $25 per car) for its dealers...
...reason for the change was not so much dealer grumbling as a simple economic fact: there are some 800,000 unsold cars in dealers' showrooms now, v. only 463,000 at this time last year. General Motors and Ford have both trimmed production below 1955 levels (TIME, Jan. 23). Last week Chrysler announced that it was cutting back to a four-day week. Total auto output in January, said Ward's Reports, Inc., was about 614,000 units, almost 7% below January...
When his eight-year-old son (Bobby Clark) is kidnaped, a wealthy manufacturer (Glenn Ford) raises the $500,000 ransom that the crooks require, but before he hands the money over, he has time to consider the facts of the matter. After a fierce inner struggle, his head rules his heart. He takes TV time to tell the criminals his decision: that they will never get a cent from him, and that, moreover, if the child is not turned loose unharmed, he will post the whole half million as a reward for their capture...