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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...products was a footnote on Edsel: "Introduced in September 1957 and discontinued in November 1959." Once that got out, Ford had to speak out, though it had planned to hold off until all Edsels in dealers' inventories were sold. It really did not make much difference. As of last week, only about 2,800 of the "all-new" 1960 Edsels had been made. To mollify those few customers whose cars are now orphans with low trade-in value, Ford offered a $300 certificate to be applied against the purchase of any other Ford product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The $250 Million Flop | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

First to be warmed was the railroad industry. Freight-car loadings jumped 14% for the week to 638,408 cars, the largest traffic since the 697,633 cars loaded in the last week of June. Even the steel industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Return of the Glow | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Keeping the heat on management, Steelworkers General Counsel Arthur J. Goldberg last week sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Frederick H. Mueller, urging that the Government stockpile steel now coming from the mills as a hedge against resumption of the strike. "While I have not abandoned hope that a settlement will be reached before the 80-day injunction expires, nevertheless I must advise you in all candor that at the present writing no settlement is in prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Return of the Glow | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Detroit had expected it for months; last week Ford Motor Co. finally had to make it official. The company dropped its medium-priced Edsel, introduced only two years ago. Said Ford, in a pained announcement: "Retail sales have been particularly disappointing, and continued production of the Edsel is not justified, especially in view of the shortage of steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The $250 Million Flop | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...LAST week, while U.S. citizens thought about their 1959 cards, Hall was going over the 1960 line, studying it during the day, taking it home at night to see how it looked by the light of the fireplace in his Georgian mansion set on a 700-acre farm outside Kansas City. Some time soon, Christmas 1960 will go to press, and next year every American will get at least one greeting card the original of which is back at Hallmark bearing a curt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Greeting Card King | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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