Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent memory, the biggest change for Chestertown came in 1941, when Ford Dealer Philip G. Wilmer started the Kent Manufacturing Co., to make the gadgetry of war-flares, fuses for detonators and military fireworks. "The Defense Plant," as folks called it, brought the town prosperity, but they worried a little about its site, three blocks from the campus, four from the business district. Already there had been two or three small explosions that did not hurt anyone...
...Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). William Lundigan and Wanda Hendrix in The Bachelor...
Currently the darling of the sportswriters, Mays has been widely depicted in print as a high-spirited chatterbox, a dugout wit and locker room clown. On the field he often does crackle like an old Ford magneto, kids in a boy-and-father way with Manager Durocher. But off the field Mays curbs his tongue and his curiosity. "When Willie wants to know something," says Guardian Forbes, with considered understatement, "he'll ask a simple question. All he wants is a simple answer. Then he don't see any reason for chewing it up any further. Willie...
Harry Ferguson, 69, waspish, Irish-born inventor of farm machinery who once settled a patent suit against Ford out of court for $9,250,000, resigned as board chairman and director of Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, which was formed only last October by the merger of Canada's Massey-Harris Co. and a group of Britain's Harry Ferguson companies. Ferguson announced that he will devote himself to "new inventions-outside the agricultural field" (reportedly a cheap "people's car"). James Duncan, 61, president of Massey-Harris-Ferguson, took over the title of board...
...dealers blame their woes on the manufacturers, and they especially blame Ford and Chevrolet for over producing in their all-out race for first place. Furthermore, dealers angrily charge that factory distributors themselves are among the worst bootleggers. Manufacturers could easily check bootlegging by simply lifting franchises...