Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Ford went into a trance, "Fletcher" reported the forms of several of Pike's deceased friends emerging from "a great massive light." Some skeptics were unkind enough to suggest that Pike might have used this pipeline to the beyond to clear up his doubts about such doctrines as the Trinity and Virgin Birth, but the conversations were rather prosaic. A chat between Pike and his predecessor as Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Karl Block, dwelled on the problems of buying church property. An exchange with the late father of British theologian Donald MacKinnon elicited the helpful information...
...more adventurous design their own around Volkswagen engines or the sturdy, simple Model A Ford motor. In a pinch, almost any old engine will do. One latter-day Orville Wright powered his homemade biplane with a pair of chain-saw motors...
While labor negotiations at strike-bound Ford and the other auto companies wore on last week, a finale of sorts was reached in another regular Detroit drama: the annual reshuffling of new-model prices...
...that it had set two weeks earlier to $101. The Chrysler shuffle, however, was less a reaction to the A.M.C. price schedule than an effort to get back in step with General Motors, which has a 53% share of the U.S. auto market and generally controls price trends. Both Ford and Chrysler set their prices before G.M. last year, only to be forced to double back when the leader came out later with a smaller increase. This time G.M. followed Chrysler's original 4.6% increase with an average boost of only 3.6%, or $110, which Ford cautiously matched with...
...sleeper involves changes in warranties. Now, first owners will get warranty protection as before, but second owners will have to accept limited coverage (in the case of Chrysler) or pay an initial $25 inspection fee plus a $25 deductible payment for subsequent warranty work done for full coverage (with Ford and A.M.C.). Third owners are out of luck altogether except with a G.M. car; if it is less than two years old (or has been driven less than 24,000 miles), the warranty will be continued as long as the buyer pays a $25 transfer...