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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Rockets over Chestertown | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). William Lundigan and Wanda Hendrix in The Bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTO BOOT LEGGING: The Cause & Cure | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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