Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford will have new bumpers and fenders, more pronounced fins, round instead of oval tail lights. The grille is new to avoid last year's cheese-grater effect. The new Ford look: "quiet refinement...
Edsel has a wider, lower look, though the purse-mouthed grille remains. Prices: closer to Ford to reduce competition with Mercury...
...leaner days of 1958 comes into sharp focus in these tables compiled from industry statistics for each of the last four model years from first production to final changeover. 1958 1957 1956 1955 Chevrolet 1,283,052 1,552,471 1,617,398 1,766,013 Ford 961,236 1,655,068 1,468,734 1,451,157 Plymouth 399,236 662,824 526,852 672,130 Oldsmobile 296,369 384,392 485,459 583,181 Buick 241,908 405,086 572,024 738,814 Pontiac 217,282 334,041 405,730 554,090 Rambler...
...Dolly Levi, a widow of parts, Actress Booth plays an erstwhile palm reader and dispenser of medicine oil whose present project is snaring Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford), possibly the richest merchant in all Yonkers in 1884. Her mission is complicated by the merchant's preference for finance rather than romance. "Marriage," he snorts, "is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder." Even worse, the old skinflint seems set on marrying somebody young. Author Wilder's solution, which involves exploding tomato tins, a pair of Vandergelder's clerks uprooting the City...
Wilder and Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes coat this slapstick with lavish layers of roguish dialogue. If Actress Booth blinks at the camera and confides, "Money is like manure-it's not worth anything unless it's spread around," Actor Ford is there a moment later to lament: "Oh for the days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl...