Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FORD'S 1954 models will make their debut to dealers in CinemaScope. Ford has bought commercial CinemaScope rights for one year, plans to show the new car films in theatres in their morning off hours...
After almost a half century on the boards, oldtime Showgirl Sophie Tucker finally got to play Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The occasion was the biggest one-night stand of her career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with...
Excursion (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBCTV) is the Ford Foundation TV-Radio Workshop's half-hour for children (between 8 and 16), but since it does not talk down to children, grownups will probably like it too. Its ambition is "to wake children up, open some windows, let in some fresh air, and establish values for them." Actor Burgess Meredith, in a friendly, easygoing manner, takes the kids on a variety of jaunts which have already included a sail down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn (with Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson playing Jim, the slave), a visit to Harry Truman...
ALLIED Chemical & Dye Corp., one of the biggest U.S. producers of heavy chemicals, will move into the plastics industry, which has been one of Allied's best customers. For about $10 million, it bought Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.'s Plaskon Division, which supplies resins and other molding materials to fabricators...
Britain's entries included 1) a new, boxlike Ford Anglia, with a four-cylinder engine capable of 50 to 60 m.p.h., which sells for about $1,100, and 2) the Standard Eight, a four-cylinder model that sells for $956. France showed off a tiny Rovin convertible, with a top speed of 50 m.p.h. and a $1,033 price tag. There was also a front-wheel-drive Citroën, one of France's most popular cars (it has a two-year waiting list), with a two-cylinder engine, maximum speed of 50 m.p.h. and price...