Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincoln, Neb., Governor Dwight Griswold began reckoning the cost of his bet with 27 other Governors that Nebraska would sell a bigger percentage of bonds. The payoff: a corn-fed hog to each. His problem: how to get around an OPA regulation that he must pay full ration points (about 810 red points-a 50-week supply) for each & every...
Bacon & Eggs & Turkey. Early one morning Commando Willkie left his beach position alone in a chauffeured Lincoln. Driving through an obscuring fog, he arrived shortly after 8 at the grey-walled University Club in downtown Los Angeles. There David Faries had gathered a hundred business & professional men to join him in bacon & eggs and to hear him talk turkey off-the-record. For 45 minutes, to the obvious satisfaction of virtually everyone present, he talked, answering in gutty, he-man language (hells & damns were not infrequent) the questions inspired by the doubts that California Republicans had expressed about Willkie since...
Landslides, mud, dust often wiped out the engineers' work as fast as they finished it. Asked about progress, Colonel Charles Gleim, formerly construction engineer of the Lincoln Tunnel, commander of the advanced engineers, answered: "Doing great. Only lost half a mile this month." Bulldozers, trucks, tractors slid or were knocked over mountainsides in drops of hundreds, sometimes thousands of feet. One 'dozer operator ducked as a clod of dirt hit his head, looked up and saw a whole mountaintop coming down on him. He jumped clear. His bulldozer was buried. To exhume it the engineers had to blast...
...From then on Edsel's influence caused the Ford Co. to cater to the public. Edsel established the styling division-Fords had been designed by Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. up till then-made Fords slicker, more eye-pleasing. He launched the Zephyr and the luxurious Lincoln-Continental. With his death (TIME, June 7) all this was bound to change. The dropping of the three Ford men showed how far the change has gone. They were the last of the tight little group Edsel had formed to carry out his newfangled ideas...
Henry Ford kept his shrewd mouth shut clam-tight about the changes. But many a motor-wise man made good guesses. Most likely: when auto production is resumed, Ford will drop its Zephyr and Lincoln-Continental lines; will turn its designing job over to outsiders again; will concentrate on turning out frill-free cars cheaper and faster than anyone else. In effect, the Lizzie would again become a kind of family jeep...