Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day, death had a fiesta. Soon after the roaring pack headed off over rolling junglelands from Tuxtla to Oaxaca (329.3 miles), disaster multiplied near Tehuantepec. A Ford overturned on a curve, and six spectators who had rushed to help its occupants were killed by a second Ford, which came whipping around the blind turn. A bit later, near by, an Italian co-driver died under his Ferrari after it blew a tire and overturned. The survivors tore onward, and at first lap's end a record average speed of 94.86 m.p.h. was set by one of Italy...
...char, but not burn. The plastic replaces layers of felt, stuck together with asphalt, which separate the roof deck from its insulation. It was the melting asphalt that intensified the fire at Livonia when it fell into the flames. Cost is no higher than standard roof construction. First customer: Ford Motor Co., for an addition to its Cleveland engine plant...
...Zachary Scott), but he is a weakling, and probably couldn't even uphold her shoulder strap in an argument. Four others, escaped convicts, are led by a hard-breathing type (Rodolfo Acosta) whose fondness for silk has nothing to do with its denier. Only the sixth man (Glenn Ford) can keep him from fingering the stuff, because only Ford knows the way through the jungle to safety from the agents of a revolutionary junta who are dashing in pursuit...
...Thorns slash at Ann's nightie, a puma snaps at it, a colony of ants almost eats it off her back one night, even a crocodile comes up for a nibble. However, just as Actress Sheridan seems about to violate the Production Code, up steps Actor Ford to offer her his shirt and a spare pair of pants...
Instead of building engines the old expensive way by sending men off to stockrooms for each part, Wright now puts everything on conveyor belts to move engine parts to the workers, as in the auto industry. The line, said Hurley, who learned his business as a top Ford production executive in Detroit, takes up 42% less space than the old way, cranks out engines twice as fast at two-thirds the cost...