Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself for industry's indifference to his multiple schemes with the contention that it would take science 25 years to make his ideas feasible. He was about right. In 1952, after a quarter-century of living off lecture platforms, consultant fees and his friends, Fuller was approached by Ford...
...that "gives up to 10% more mileage," also offered eight other engines ranging up to 315 h.p. Plymouth offered four engines from 132 h.p. to 305 h.p., had a new gas-saving carburetor and new rear-axle-gear ratio, which it said "contribute to 10% greater economy of operation." Ford came out with four engines ranging from 145 h.p. to 300 h.p., said its lowest-powered, six-cylinder model will get better than 20 miles...
Dealers still had a tough time finding enough cars to sell. Local strikes idled General Motors workers. Most of Plymouth's production was shut down. Among the Big Three, only Ford rolled in full production. Chevrolet announced that it had enough dealer orders to produce full speed for 60 to 90 days. But strikebound Chevy had produced only 14,800 of the '593 for its 7,500 dealers...
Goldilocks (book by Walter and Jean Kerr; music by Leroy Anderson; lyrics by the Kerrs and Joan Ford) takes place in 1913, in pioneer cinema days when redskins were swarming all over Fort Lee. The show itself concerns a short-on-cash, long-on-ego moviemaker and a sizzling-tongued actress he corrals for shotgun movie heroics on the eve of her society marriage. Communicating by insult, the two keep throwing knives at each other without for a long time realizing that they are actually Cupid's darts...
Thus East (Unni Menon, a mystical engineer) meets West (Anne Ford, the new English teacher at a Khatmandu girls' school) in Author Han (A Many-Splendored Thing) Suyin's new novel. And why was it that critics denounced Kipling...