Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue flared bitterly last March when a Vancouver trading company purportedly representing Red China charged that the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Ltd. had refused to consider an order for 1,000 cars because of the operation of the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. Last week's common-sense solution: to review any future cases in Washington and Ottawa, generally free Canadian companies to operate under Canadian rules...
...news about the car of the future is not so much what it will look like, but what it will be made of. The material: aluminum. After years of experiments, the industry is finally starting to roll with the new metal-with General Motors out ahead, Ford and Chrysler following along behind...
...when we find men as dedicated as Adams, do we enjoy heckling them off their shaky roost? If they would compare the salaries and gift lists of Harlow Curtice, Henry Ford II, et al., it would make Adams' list look pretty trivial...
...sales in the second ten days of June posted a 6.8% increase in daily rate over the first ten days, and last week's production was up 9.6%. Ford Motor Co. returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...
...worth of screen time, which it feels ultimately boosts sales just as regular TV commercials do. Longines-Wittnauer believes that awarding its watches on TV greatly enhances their value: "People may not rush right out and buy, but over the year it pays off." RCA Victor, Polaroid Corp. and Ford's Lincoln-Mercury found that traffic jumped appreciably in their showrooms and stores after a single showing on NBC's The Price Is Right, one of the fastest-rising shows on television...