Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LINCOLN E. FORD...
...FORD-CHEVY RACE will be won by Ford in calendar 1959. Chevy is now shade ahead, but Ford will outsell its traditional rival because of steel strike. Since Ford makes 40% to 50% of its own steel, company can produce 20,000 cars a week until end of the year, well above Chevy output...
...sedans and coupes with engines no bigger than 3,500 cc. could enter, and all V-8s were excluded. Lined up at the start in ten classes were cars from the U.S., Britain, France. Germany and Sweden. The entries that held all eyes were the new Chevrolet Corvairs and Ford Falcons, both competing in the same class (2,001 to 2,500 cc.) and each with top drivers and pit crews. Chevy made it a major effort, with five cars and a 25-man pit crew sponsored by the Denver Chevrolet Dealers Association. Not to be outdone, Denver Ford dealers...
...race was hard on the standard tires, particularly those on Chevy's five Corvairs, which had to slow down to make sure that they would finish. At the final flag, American Motors' Rambler was out in front averaging 55.5 m.p.h., with a Volkswagen second. A pair of Ford Falcons drove off with third and fourth, and two Corvairs had to settle for sixth and seventh...
...Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). For a musical salute to Ethel Merman's career, Merman on Broadway collected Tab Hunter, Fess Parker and Tom Poston. Color...