Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blast of the concealed bomb tore the stalled Ford into shrapnel. It blew the Rambler off the road; the little car plunged in flames over a cliff into the steep gorge of the Beirut River. All five adults in the car were killed at once; the girl died hours later. The charred body of Fayet Esrouer came to rest sitting on a cliffside rock, feet propped up as if still on brakes, and hands still clutching the wheel that was no longer there. On the asphalt of the highway, the motorcycle cop was sprawled dead. Behind him, two gendarmes...
After a four-month investigation of price fixing by auto dealers in major cities, the Justice Department last week got its first indictments. Named by a District of Columbia grand jury were 17 Ford, 14 Chevrolet and eleven Oldsmobile dealers. The charges: setting minimum prices on new cars for several years, as well as agreeing to refrain from price advertising and pegging prices of parts, accessories and service. In addition, Ford and Olds dealers were charged with setting minimum gross profits per sale ($225 for a Ford, $450 for an Olds). The Ford Motor Co. itself was accused of cooperating...
...Ford denied the charge, said it apparently grew out of a 1954 program of Ford dealers to make sure that wholesale parts were sold only to bona fide customers. But there was no agreement on the prices to customers. For the dealers, Dean Chaffin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, scoffed at the indictment. Said he: "If there was any attempt to fix prices, it was certainly a colossal failure. As every new-car buyer knows, for the past several years the retail prices of new cars have been the prices the customers have negotiated." Nevertheless, the Justice Department...
...buyer around the country, Mrs. Marcella Norman of Houston last week became the woman of the year. Mrs. Norman, a comely, 31-year-old divorced waitress who supports her four children, went to Houston's Metro Lincoln-Mercury Motor Co. a month ago to trade in her 1955 Ford for a newer car. She bought a 1957 blue Chevrolet sedan, thought she had signed a contract to pay $57.10 a month for 18 months. But when she checked the contract a few days later, she discovered that she would have to pay for 30 months...
...market will get under way Jan. i when the member countries-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands-cut their duties to each other by 10%, the first step toward eventually removing all duties within the area. Hundreds of U.S. firms are already preparing for market opportunities. Ford International opened a special office in Brussels to guide its European operations into the common market. H. J. Heinz bought a Dutch plant to produce its 57 varieties for Europe, and Du Pont is hunting for plants in Holland and Belgium. Other branches or new factories have been...