Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week three men accosted a young New York bank clerk as he was leaving his home in New York City's borough of Queens. They ushered him into his Ford at gunpoint and drove with him the 14 blocks to his office, a branch of the Bank of the Manhattan Co. (which had just merged with Chase National to become the nation's second largest bank). They waited on the sidewalk outside. When the manager arrived he was stopped, too. "This isn't funny," he snapped. One of the bandits, flashing a submachine gun, replied...
...kind of fishing records for years. Last summer at the Wisconsin State Fair, he hooked ten in ten minutes (prize: a week's vacation). In last year's Sentinel show he won a $2,500 log cabin (which he traded to an uncle for a 1951 Ford convertible), plus a week's canoe trip and another vacation at a northern Wisconsin resort where he and a pal caught 72 wall-eyed pike in 3½ days...
...General Motors, Ford and Chrysler all reported record-smashing new-car sales. G.M.'s first-quarter sales of 893,978 cars (46.8% above the same period last year) were the best for any three-month period in its history. By selling 44,115 cars, Chrysler Corp.'s Chrysler Division cracked all previous first-quarter marks and was an amazing 70.1% ahead of a year ago. Ford announced that first-quarter sales of its dealers totaled 1,017,773 cars and trucks, both new and used, an alltime high and 21% above the same quarter last year. The previously...
James V. Busch, Charles F. Easton III (captain); Daniel C. Fricker; Joseph W. Goodman; Frederick S. Kullman; William L. Marbury; John F. Moog; Thomas T. Myres; Kenneth A. Pruett; Maurice G. Ford (manager...
...Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees pitched a two-hitter as the Yanks crushed the Washington Senators, 19 to 1. At Ebbets Field, Carl Erskine of the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates...