Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuesday morning, Detroit was shrouded in acrid smoke. The Edsel Ford and John C. Lodge freeways were nearly deserted. Tens of thousands of office and factory workers stayed home. Downtown streets that are normally jammed were almost empty. Looters smashed the windows of a Saks Fifth Avenue branch near the General Motors office building, made off with furs and dresses. With many grocery stores wrecked and plundered throughout the city, food became scarce. Some profiteering merchants were charging as much as $ 1 for bread...
...Detroit will be some time recovering. Downtown, in the City-County Building, more than 500 members of Detroit's white and black establishment, including Henry Ford II and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, responded to an invitation by Romney and Cavanagh to a latter-day reconstruction meeting. True to its motto, Resurget Cineribus, Detroit was determined to rise from the ashes as swiftly as possible. As Reuther emphasized, there would have to be some social rebuilding along with the physical. Said he: "Most Americans are increasingly affluent, but we have left some Americans behind. Those Americans...
...Their marriage was like forget it, but the divorce is a poem," crooned Syndicated Society Columnist Suzy in her latest bulletin from the Mediterranean, where ex-Spouses Charlotte Ford, 26, and Stavros Niarchos, 58, with 14-month-old Baby Elena, sailed aboard Stav's 190-ft. schooner Creole. Since divorce ended their 15-month marriage in March, the jet set's odd couple has toured Europe and Africa together, may be pushing their luck on the Creole-where their zigzag alliance got going in the first place...
...half-year, profits were $911,567,400, or 20% below last year. Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend reported improved second-quarter sales of $1.6 billion with earnings off 11%, to $54.4 million, from the year-ago figure but better than the first quarter's performance. Ford Motor Co. (see WORLD BUSINESS) had a second-quarter income of $146,500,000 -off 32%-on sales of $3.2 billion...
...months, Ford Motor Co. has been re-examining its operations abroad with an eye toward a bigger share of the world market. Recently it established Ford of Europe, Inc. to provide better overall control of its British and Continental subsidiaries. Last week Ford was market building again outside the U.S., this time looking south to Latin America. The company announced it is buying a majority interest in Willys-Overland do Brasil, Brazil's second largest automaker...