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...Ford Motor Co. increased sales 43%, thanks to a boost from commercial buyers replacing worn out pickup trucks and other vehicles. Overall, Ford's sales increased 37% during the first quarter; the increases posted in February and March were the company's best monthly gains since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto-Sales Jump in March: Is Recovery Finally Here? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...dealers welcome more new customers every day," says Ken Czubay, Ford's vice president of U.S. sales and service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto-Sales Jump in March: Is Recovery Finally Here? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...giant wind turbine stands over Dagenham Heathway like an exclamation point. To Ford Motor Co., the U.S. corporation that erected it six years ago, the turbine is a vigorous declaration of modernity, generating the sustainable energy that drives what it calls a "global center of excellence for diesel engineering." These days, however, the 394-ft. (120 m) structure seems to punctuate the cry of pain that was once a busy shopping street in this hardscrabble East London suburb. Ford Dagenham produced as many as 340,617 cars annually and employed 40,000 people at its peak in the 1960s. Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Funk: Why Britain is Feeling Bleak | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...manufacturing. Faced with Britain's notoriously tetchy industrial relations and high costs, many companies chose to relocate their factories to countries offering more pliant workforces and cheaper real estate. With the strength of the pound making its Dagenham plant look wincingly expensive compared with similar subsidiaries in other countries, Ford closed its car-production lines there in 2002 after 71 years. Dagenham MP Cruddas describes the resulting job losses and social tumult as "globalization ripping through a microclimate at great speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Funk: Why Britain is Feeling Bleak | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...think there’s a bit sentimentality,” said Linda S. Ford, Director of Collections Operations. “Even with all the problems because this building’s age, all the people love this building...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Collections To Find New Home in Northwest Science Building | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

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