Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automakers were also busy last week bringing their standard 1960 models to market. Ford Motor Co. unveiled its 1960 line to the public, showed 15 models that are the longest, lowest and widest that Ford has ever built. The company also announced factory list prices for its compact car, the Falcon. A two-door model will list for $1,746 v. $1,810 for Chevrolet's Corvair; a four-door Falcon will list for $1,803 v. $1,860 for a Corvair. For its imported line Ford showed a restyled, British-built Anglia with a four-cylinder engine that...
Such claims have stirred up an angry argument. Ford contends that a rear-engine car tends to oversteer and veer out on curves because the greater part of its weight is in the rear. It has less luggage space-only 15.6 cu. ft. in the Corvair v. 24.5 cu. ft. for the Falcon and 24.9 cu. ft. for the Valiant. (But the Corvair has an optional folding rear seat, for $32.50 extra, that provides another 13.3 cu. ft. of luggage room in the back.) Many engineers insist that a rear engine is not practical on the basis of present knowledge...
...before school. The milk route taught him to hustle ("Because the load becomes lighter"), and it also taught him that a touch of extra service can win customers. He built a snowplow, hitched a horse to it and in the winter cleared his customers' driveways. Summers he hawked Ford tractors to farmers, found that the best way to sell was to demonstrate the plows himself; he would plow the farmers' land, and the farmers figured that if young Ed could do it that easily, so could they. He earned $600 a summer. Winters he built and sold radios...
...plants, there were widespread layoffs. The corporation also said that it will have to begin closing many assembly plants, starting with Chevrolet the first of October, although it thought it could keep some Chevy plants running to Nov. 1. Chrysler said it will start shutting down in November. Even Ford, which makes 40% of its steel at the integrated Rouge plant, expects to be hit by early December. This week at his press conference President Eisenhower said he was "getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse." Free collective bargaining, added Ike, "the logical recourse of a free people...
...Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of a highly touted series of specials, The Wonderful World of Entertainment weighs in with Rosalind Russell, Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen, Eddy Foy Jr., Jack Paar, Kate Smith and Eddie Hodges...