Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Star Jubilee (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Together with Music, starring Noel Coward, Mary Martin...
...Fund for the Republic, it seemed a solid journalistic coup. The Fund, an offshoot of the Ford Foundation, had signed up the Washington Post and Times Herald's famed cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), to make 26 15-minute TV films of news comment illustrated by his cartoons, had allocated $200,000 to put on the programs...
...higher speed," said the American Automobile Association recently. Last week, as more and more of 1956's new models hit the showrooms, there was little indication that the automakers were paying attention to A.A.A.'s horsepower fear. Plymouth announced a 200 h.p. "Hy-Fire V8" to match Ford's 202 h.p. "Thunderbird V-8"; Dodge and Mercury were boosted to 225-230 h.p., while Chrysler and Lincoln were up to 285 h.p., with most of General Motors still to come. Horsepowers were so high that state legislators talked seriously about cutting speed limits, increasing fines and auto...
...engineering and a public-relations standpoint. For 1956, the industry is making another pitch to car buyers: more safety-with seat belts, shock-absorbing steering wheels and padded instrument panels. Some industry officials think that engines may climb as high as 400 h.p. but not much higher. Says Ford's Continental Chief Bill Ford: "Up in that range pure horsepower is useless. You step on the accelerator and just burn rubber. You may have the most, but for all practical purposes, you have nothing...
Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dorothy McGuire (TIME...