Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division (100% Hydra-Matic) with a 10-20 days' supply, prepared to expand Mercury production, cut back on Lincolns. Hudson (58%), shut down for a model change, has "a couple of weeks' supply"; Nash (33%) has enough for a few weeks, but has been shut down by a supplier's strike; Kaiser (60%) has been closed since June. Said G.M. President Harlow Curtice after inspecting Livonia: "At this moment every facility ... is being concentrated on the extensive rebuilding job that faces us . . ." Curtice moved fast, this week took steps to lease...
Habitués. In Toledo, after spending almost five hours in Sam's Cafe before it closed for the night, Ford G. Belcher and two friends broke into the tavern half an hour later, told police when arrested: "We give Sam all our business...
...looked like William Powell. Relatives have tried, without success, to bring Shirley and her father together. Her younger sister Jean, who sees their father infrequently, says: "My father is stiff and proud, and will never give in. Shirley will never give in either." Shirley's stepmother. Rita Ford, cries despairingly: "If they could only understand how much alike they are! They both have the same dispositions ; they're both a bundle of nerves. I'm sure that each of them is dying to have the other make the first move." Of the feud, Shirley says frankly...
...FORD Motor Co., which makes one of every five U.S. farm tractors, is ready to try for a bigger chunk of the farm-equipment market. It will shortly put on sale its first full line of farm equipment, including combines, hay balers, corn pickers and cotton harvesters...
...Volkswagen company (TiME, July 20), whose little two-door sedans have made a big hit in Brazil, will shortly build a $32 million production plant near Sao Paulo. By early 1955, Volkswagen, hopes to be turning out 12,000 cars a year in Brazil, give some tough competition to Ford, which opened a $10 million assembly plant there last April...