Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell chair is supported by the same Ford Foundation grant which supported the Henry Ford II Professorship, now occupied by David Riesman. Both posts were established...
...Detroit was back on a six-day week to make up time lost by strikes, and some automakers expected to work at peak output for at least three months. Output this week is scheduled at 107,000 cars, highest of the year. Ford has already sold 100,000 new models, more than 10% of its 1958 model sales. Plymouth is 100,000 cars behind dealer orders. Chevrolet will not be able to catch up on orders for at least two months. American Motors Corp. broke all its previous production records, has nudged out Pontiac to become No. 6 carmaker with...
...public is going to want nearly two years before the car actually comes out. For this reason designers often get caught with their plans down; there was little they could do about the revolt against chrome-and the demand for a small car. Last week General Motors and Ford were experimenting with a radical new electronic machine to make dies that would drastically cut the lead time, make it possible to turn out dies in as short a time as six months...
...machine that is causing all the excitement among the giants is put out by the pygmy-sized (104 employees) Elox Corp. of Royal Oak, Mich. It will bring, said a Ford tool expert, not only a change in carmaking but a "quiet revolution in the metal workings trades." Elox (for "electrical oxidation") machines not only make the machining of metal faster and cheaper, but they enable U.S. industry to do jobs it has never done before. Said Jerry Cornwell, purchasing agent for Avco's Lycoming Division, a prime missile contractor: "We're doing things that just couldn...
...course," Ford said. It has all been properly adjudicated--and now for the implementation...