Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland, Ford dealers knocked off up to $1,000 from the highest-priced mod els on a "clean deal," i.e., no trade-in. Plymouths were selling at $450 off list in New York; Oldsmobiles at $1,000 off in Dallas. Manhattan's Max Lasko (Stu runs," debaker) and even allowed $1.000 Cadillacs on were "any car selling that at discounts in Cleveland, Dallas and Miami. As a result, the National Automobile Dealers Association does not believe that dealers can even maintain the low (3%) profit margin on sales that they averaged for the first quarter. Said H. W. Robin...
...Southern Coal Producers Association, before a Chicago meeting of the American Trucking Associations. Small businessmen, he said, must unite, raise "real money" and fight as a unit against the guaranteed annual wage. "The huge reserves necessary to guarantee even 26 weeks' unemployment assistance as low as the Ford and General Motors contract call for, just aren't possible for new and small businesses. And don't think these guarantees won't grow. We in the coal industry remember only too well what happened to us . . . In 1946 a contract [was] signed for the payment...
...swather" to take the place of the standard 7-ft. mower. Twelve feet across, it will slice through fields, cut and pile the hay in rows in a single operation, thus displacing (with a single operator) two men and three tractors, two mowers and a pair of hay rakes. Ford is working on a low-cost combine for medium-sized farms, a new corn picker that can be attached to the front of a standard four-wheeled tractor. Another new development: a machine called the Wonsover, which a Maine inventor named Herman Cohen will soon put into production...
...will hit 450,000 units annually. Says Oliver's President A. King McCord: "We believe that 1960 could be the biggest year of this industry just on replacement alone." Beyond that, the world's food requirements are growing with the fast increase in population. Says Ford Vice President Irving A. Duffy, chief of the farm division: "By 1975, our population is expected to reach about 200 million. That means we must feed 35 to 40 million extra stomachs. It means we'll need meat from 10 million more cattle and calves, 20 million extra hogs...
...thousands more huzzahed. At home on East Street, he riffled through a 2-ft.-high stack of telegrams. Then, swamped by offers for endorsements, interviews and public appearances, he telephoned Fred Corcoran, professional business manager for professional athletes, became a Corcoran client. Later in the day the local Ford dealer dropped around to insist that Jack try out a Thunderbird, al though he already owns a 1955 Buick and an aging Chevrolet. Finally, at 10 p.m. - after two full days of transcontinental pandemonium, highlighted by a 5-minute chat with President Eisenhower in San Francisco, Jack Fleck turned into...