Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward week's end the royal party flew to Detroit, where the King tried out G.M.'s experimental, bubble-topped Cadillac Cyclone, gave equal time to Ford and Chrysler, heard familiar cries of "Leve de Koning!" (in Flemish: "Long live the King!") from some of the city's 38,000 residents of Belgian descent. Moving fast, he did Chicago in 20 hours, ended his week in Dallas. With reserve strength needed for a dozen more cities, including visits to Disneyland, SAC headquarters and a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, Baudouin took a day off, enjoyed a relaxing round of golf...
...Future. What the U.S. could expect in the future and what might well send Wall Street's stock market higher still was contained in the predictions of industry's executives. Ford Vice President Charles R. Beacham predicted that auto sales in 1959 would top 1958 by 40%. U.S. Rubber General Sales Manager Herbert D. Smith predicted record sales of 94.5 million tires this year for the replacement market, to say nothing of the 29 million tires that go on new cars...
...product can suddenly catch fire with consumers or, at times, just as suddenly lose favor. Nearly 30 years ago, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, a Danish immigrant bicyclemaker turned automan, was the one who lit the fuse under Chevrolet and sent it out ahead of Ford as the most popular U.S. car. His reward was the presidency of General Motors. Three years ago, Big Bill Knudsen's son, Semon Emil Knudsen, took on a similar job: he was made boss of G.M.'s sputtering Pontiac division, thus became, at 43, G.M.'s youngest auto-di-vision...
...Journal (optimistically numbered "Vol. I, No. I) is mimeographed with a printed green cover, and its contributions--edited by Dan Frost '60--range over discussions in sociology, history, and economics. Ford Grant funds provided the wherewithall for production, an allotment which might curtail the flow of Beaujolais, but seems eminently worthwhile...
Hopefully the Journal will continue on to further issues; and it would be worthy emulation if other Houses initiated similar projects. Giving recognition to good student papers is as productive an outlay of Ford money as are port and sherry at tutorial dinners. Recognition of solid "fledgling scholarship" has benefits for both contributors and readers. The experiment should be repeated both by Adams and other Houses...