Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divisions are planning record years. Buick wants to bump Plymouth out of third place in the industry (while Ford wants to bump Chewy out of first...
Second-place Ford has spent $60 million on retooling to give its 1954 cars more powerful engines and sleeker lines. Ford was the only automaker besides G.M. to gain more of the market last year (it gained 2.1%), and is anxious to increase its 25.3% share in 1954. Ford has set aside $500 million for expansion, much of it to boost Ford production up to Chevrolet's 35,000 weekly level. Said Henry Ford II: "We hope we can be first in 1954." While he looks for about a 10% drop in overall auto output this year, Ford foresees...
...Runabout. The independents also all lost ground to G.M. and Ford in 1953. Their difficult position was highlighted last week by the merger of Nash and Hudson into a new company to be called American Motors Corp. While Nash has been doing well, Hudson sales have been down. By merging purchasing, research and other departments, they figured they could be stronger and save money all around. Together, they form the fourth-biggest auto company in the U.S., with assets of $355 million and more than $100 million in operating capital...
...Fred Jones, 61, Oklahoma City Ford dealer and oil-company executive, moved into the newly created job of board chairman of the $34 million Braniff Airways, Inc. Named president of Braniff was Charles E. Beard, 53, succeeding Airline Pioneer Thomas E. Braniff, who died in a private-plane crash in Louisiana last week. Beard (no kin to the late Historian Charles A. Beard) came to Braniff in 1935, has been executive vice president
...finally took the pledge, too, though it did not seem to lessen his zest for fun or the game he loved. In recent years he directed the New York Journal-American's sandlot-baseball program. Among his alumni: Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes. Last week, as baseball writers were sealing their ballots for elections to the game's Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Rabbit Maranville, among the leading candidates, died of a heart attack at 61 in his New York City home. There were many who fondly remembered the Rabbit's quick chuckle...