Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown had come in the battle for the guaranteed annual wage. Unless Ford Motor Co. or the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers backed down at the last minute, all signs pointed to a strike...
...cards were put on the table at a crucial bargaining session in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. There, after seven weeks of sparring behind closed doors, Ford made its major counter-offer to the U.A.W.'s demands for G.A.W...
...pockets while he talked, the telephone company was selling a phone equipped with a special speaker. In Los Angeles a cab driver announced happily that, "Everybody's tipping big today, even women." The highways were lined with the most spectacular parade of new cars in history, from Ford Crestliners in magenta and ivory to Cadillac Eldorados in "goddess gold" and Wedgwood green...
There was a waiting list for Cadillacs in New Orleans. Said a stenographer in Austin, Texas: "I just bought an air-conditioned Ford. I know I couldn't afford the air conditioning, but then I couldn't afford the Ford to begin with, so I just went ahead and got both." The probability that she would manage to pay for it was very high...
...spring of 1924, he was national light-car champion, and the days were not long enough for him to get all the racing he wanted. In his "Fronty" Ford, Shaw would race his buddies cross-country on their way to the dirt tracks where they earned their prize money. Evenings, they would celebrate. Dawn would find them racing home, their hopped-up engines shattering the morning silence, their hard tires (90 lbs. of air in motorcycle tires shellacked to the wheel rims) jolting along rutted country roads...