Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brand Names. In Long Beach, Calif., a few hours after arresting I. W. Harper for drunkenness, police arrested Motorist Henry Ford for driving without a license...
...Yale University, a pair of Hawaiians, Ford Konno and Yoshi Oyakawa, both swimming for Ohio State, won four National A.A.U. titles. Konno, after splashing home in front in the 220-yd. free style, set a meet record with a 4:28.2 quarter-mile grind. Oyakawa, sticking to his backstroke specialty, took the 100-yd. and 220-yd championships...
...Motors' President Harlow Curtice announced that it was G.M.'s best first quarter by a whopping 35% over the previous peak (set last year). In the first 20 days of March, even G.M.'s used-car sales hit a record high, 29.4% greater than ever before. Ford, working on "maximum overtime schedules," reported a postwar record week. Chrysler announced that it earned more in igss's first two months than it did in all of 1954 (when it netted $18,516,770). Chrysler output, which had dropped from 20% of the industry total to 13% last...
...Detroit's $250,000 "transfer" machines operated by Ford, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet and Packard, which can turn out a complete engine block on an automated line 100 yds. long and carry it through 500 separate processes. Whenever any part of the machine makes a mistake, a special sensing device halts all work until the mistake is corrected...
Died. Harry Shulman, 52, Russian-born dean of the Yale Law School, and widely respected professional labor arbitrator (since 1943 permanent umpire for, among others, United Auto Workers v. Ford); in New Haven, Conn...