Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added, "I wish he would do as Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt did in exerting influence with Congress...
Brown was toastmaster at the dinner, substituting for this year's captain, Dick Lincoln, who is now on active duty with the Navy. For the past three years, Brown has rowed how in the first 150-lb. shell...
...Look. There was also a revolution in car design and style. Old Henry Ford had never given a hoot about either ("Give them any color they want as long as it's black"). Edsel, who had a flair for design, brought out the Lincoln Continental in 1939. But he made little progress in getting the company to set up its own design department. Breech and young Henry made that a first order of business. They also hired George Walker, a noted independent Detroit designer...
Benson, 33, is shorter (5 ft. 9 in.) and chunkier than Henry, and more of a desk man. For a while he liked nightclubs more than the office. But now he is the hardest worker of the three. He puts in long hours as boss of the Lincoln-Mercury division, has not had time for a round of golf in two years. But he finds time to cruise on Lake St. Clair on weekends in his 42-ft. cabin cruiser with his wife, the former Edith McNaughton of Detroit, and their two children. Like Henry, Ben has also developed into...
...hiring them from outside, Billy put together a null special projects department, designed an experimental model, and for a while carefully kept it hidden, even from his brothers. When he showed it off, he got a shock. Brother Ben's designers had been secretly working on a 1956 Lincoln. Says Ernie Breech: "It practically floored Billy, for Ben's looked better than his. Billy took it well, went back to his shop and worked out a new three-eighths scale model. It looks fine...