Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suttons, the soft and pleasant life turned out not to be the satisfying life. Last August George, Marjorie and three of their children chucked the pools and parties (and George's Ford agency) for spiritual values. Last week, 6,000 miles from home, they were battling the jungles of Brazil's Paraná State as part of a new colony of Protestant missionaries who work the land to support their mission...
Lincoln Continental (1939-41), designed by Edsel Ford and staff...
Spurring the market's rise were reports from Detroit that automakers are scheduling January production of new cars 22% higher than a year ago. Ford stock rose 32 points when it predicted that dealers would add $1 billion to sales by marketing 200,000 to 400,000 more Ford cars in 1959 than in 1958. Ford's new Galaxie series is accounting for one-third of current sales, and the Ford division will increase its January production schedule of these models 15%. General Motors' Cadillac division reported that retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days...
JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP. (1957 sales: $308 million) purchased Libbey-Owens-Ford subsidiary L-O-F Glass Fibers Co. (1957 sales: $23 million), second only to Owens-Corning Fiberglas in the industry, for stock worth $58 million...
...need for fresh, vigorous leadership outweighed their personal regard for genial old Joe Martin. The question then became, who should take Martin's place. This was a thorny issue, for the ranks of the insurgents were widely split. The young liberal Republicans favored a man like Gerald R. Ford Jr. of Michigan or the more experienced Richard M. Simpson of Pennsylvania. The arch-conservatives tended toward John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin (who later came out for Halleck and was made chairman of the Republican Policy Committee). But no bloc would pledge themselves to another's favorite, so they compromised...