Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After one final dry run on D-minus-one, the gang was ready. "During the early evening of Jan. 17, 1950," said the FBI's announcement, "members of the gang met in the Roxbury section of Boston and entered the rear of a Ford stake-body truck, which had been stolen in Boston in November 1949 to be used in the robbery. Including the driver, this truck carried nine members of the gang to the scene. During the trip, seven of the men donned...
...they approached the Brink's building, they looked for a signal from the lookout on the roof of a Prince Street building. He previously had arrived in a stolen Ford sedan. After receiving the go-ahead signal, seven members of the gang left the truck and walked through a playground to the Prince Street entrance of Brink's. Using the outside door key they previously had obtained, the men quickly entered and donned the masks." Big Tony Pino and his driver remained outside in the truck, with the motor idling...
Viewers last week were treated to the raciest-and most profane-language that has ever been heard on TV. The author: Noel Coward, who also acted with silky efficiency in his Blithe Spirit, on CBS's Ford Star Jubilee. As for the sprinkling of "hells" and "damns" in his play, Coward observed coldly: "People who object to the profanity in Blithe Spirit are crackpots, and Mr. Ford should be happy if even one of them doesn't buy his car. They would be a menace on the highway...
Another cautionary note came from the automakers, whose production race led 1955's spectacular economy. Traveling to New York to settle final details of the sale of Ford stock, Henry Ford II warned both professionals and amateurs not to expect a surefire bonanza when 10.2 million shares of the stock go on sale...
...drive the warnings home, auto plants around the U.S. were gradually reacting to the slower sales and resultant pile-up of 1956 models. At Ford, G.M. and Chrysler last week, production was cut as much as 10% on some models, and 14,000 workers were laid...