Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missoula, Mont. 28 years ago. Sharing an early interest in journalism, they worked together on the Missoula County High School and Montana State University newspapers. Out of college in 1939, they both came down with a critical case of wanderlust and left Missoula in Forbis' Model A Ford to tour the U.S. and Mexico. Neither ever returned to Missoula for long...
...looked almost as good as they did in the 1953 World Series-when Martin's last stint produced a heroic .500 batting average, a sixth-game, ninth-inning single that gave the Yankees the crown. Against the Washington Senators Martin sparked his team with two crackling hits. Whitey Ford pitched a brilliant one-hitter, Mickey Mantle slammed out his 36th homer, drove in three runs, winning the game 4-2. In the dizzy seesaw American League race with Chicago (ahead by half a game) and Cleveland (half a game out), it was good, pennant-grabbing, Yankee ball...
...homes and lawns and gardens. In mid-August the nation's department stores showed a 6% sales gain over the comparable week for 1954. In fact, spending was so free that a cloud of inflation loomed on the horizon. Farm equipment prices moved up (an average, 6% for Ford Motor Co., 7% for Caterpillar Tractor Co. and Deere & Co.); building materials, coal, work clothes and soft goods were edging upward. But Administration economists were carefully watching the trend (TIME...
From Dearborn, Mich, last week sounded the opening horn of the 1956 auto season. Ford Motor Co.'s Lincoln Division parted the curtains on two new models called the Premiere and Capri. In both looks and engineering, they represent a thorough redesign of previous Lincolns. They also represent the beginning of an ambitious campaign. Starting with these two models. Lincoln hopes gradually to edge General Motors' Cadillac from its position as the aristocrat of U.S. cars...
Lincoln is well aware that it will take many years to catch up with the Cadillac. Some 74,000 Cadillacs were registered in the first half of 1955 v. only 16,000 Lincolns. But Ford is ready to roll. Says Ben D. Mills, Ford vice president and Lincoln's general manager: "We don't intend to be in second place...