Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auction of 44 state-owned automobiles. Reason: during his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last summer, Lawyer Clement had pointed a shaming finger at the well-wheeled Gordon Browning administration and promised: "In my administration, no state commissioner will ride in a car above the level of a Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth...
...mile trip to Sun Valley, the cars averaged 44.7 m.p.h., racked up an average 22 miles per gallon. The big winner, for the fourth year in a row: Ford Motor Co., whose Ford Mainline Six, driven by Les Viland of the Ford engineering department, averaged 56.7 "ton miles" per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by mileage, and divided by gallons of gas consumed). On the basis of actual miles per gallon (27.03), the Mainline Six was second to a four-cylinder Henry J "Corsair" (28.25). In third place was Studebaker's six-cylinder Champion, with...
...Order of other finishers, on the basis of miles per gallon: Hudson Super Jet, 25.42; Nash Rambler Super. 25.37; Studebaker Commander, 24.50; Dodge V8, 23.41; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 23.39; Mercury Monterey, 23.15; Studebaker Land Cruiser (with automatic shift), 22.88; Plymouth Cranbrook, 22.83; Nash Ambassador, 22.54; Ford Mainline Eight, 22.51; Kaiser Manhattan, 22.27; Hudson Jet, 22.05; Kaiser Dragon, 21.45; Nash Ambassador Custom, 21.12; De Soto Firedome V8, 20.92; Lincoln Capri, 19.94; Nash Statesman, 19.44; Hudson Super Wasp, 19.09; Hudson Hornet, 18.95; Packard Clipper, 18.67; Chrysler New Yorker, 17.75; Chrysler Imperial...
...University faculty members were among 252 college teachers awarded study fellowships this week by the Ford Foundation Fund for the Advancement of Education...
...classes, instead of individual lessons, also help by giving them a chance to compete with one another while learning such old standbys as The Maiden's Prayer. Some piano dealers have set up classes in industrial plants. Detroit's Grinnell Bros., for example, gives lessons to 120 Ford workers each week. In Chicago, the Kimball piano company makes things easy by distributing specially printed music in which the notes are indicated by little blocks of color. With the help of a colored cardboard strip inserted behind the piano keyboard, only the color-blind can fail to strike...