Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporter said upon leaving the building that final day. As they trudged out, a van pulled up from the city's Pink Palace Museum and took away a Press-Scimitar vending machine with a truly final edition in the window. "We feel like vultures," said Curator Ronald Craw ford Brister. "People hate to see us coming." He noted that when the Firestone plant closed earlier this year, he had had to drop by and pick up the first tire produced there, in 1937, as well as the last tread off the assembly line...
...dramatic improvements came in several industries hit hard by the recession. Profits jumped 44% in the forest-products business, 58% for rubber companies and 93% for airlines. The auto industry had the most stunning turnaround of all. After losing $187 million in 1982's third quarter, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler earned $1.2 billion in that period...
After a year of expansion, the U.S. economy has regained a surprising amount of momentum, but the progress has been spotty and fundamental difficulties remain. Says Philip Caldwell, chairman of Ford Motor: "The federal budget deficit and the trade deficit are basic problems threatening the country's long-run health and the standard of living for all Americans." Unless the President and Congress deal with those problems, they cannot be sure that the economic recovery will develop from its lusty infancy to a ripe...
...Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association were set to publish A Time to Heal, an account by Gerald Ford of his life and presidency. Shortly before the book was due out, the Nation (circ. 48,000), a leftist weekly, summarized Ford's account of his pardon of Richard Nixon, using a stolen copy of the book without Ford's permission. A U.S. district court ruled that the Nation had taken the former President's work in violation of the federal copyright laws, and directed the magazine to pay the publishers damages...
Even among those who are aware that something big is on the way, there is gnawing concern that telephone service will suffer. Says Yale Professor Stephen Ross, an expert on telecommunications: "We may be trading in a Cadillac for a Ford...