Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing with the used-car dealers for choice '53-'55 models are new-car dealers, who, instead of placing their trade-ins at wholesale auctions, are selling them in their own lots to make up for sagging new-car profits. A good used auto often brings a dealer as much profit as a factory-fresh '56 model. Said one Boston Ford dealer: "You take a car that we buy for $1,000. We fix it up a bit, then sell it for $1,200 to $1,250. Our profit runs $100 to $150. That's about...
...FORD CAR, to go into production next year, will sell in the $2,600-$3,700 range, the only price bracket in which Ford does not now compete with General Motors (Buick, Oldsmobile) and Chrysler (De Soto). Ford has budgeted $250 million to bring the six-model line into production, will spend up to $150 million more to build a 1,400-dealer sales and service force, may call the car the "Edsel...
...long-awaited Civil Aeronautics Board decision on the rich New York-to-Miami airline run came last week. To little (eleven aging DC-3s, six early-model Convairs) Northeast Airlines (1955 net: $379,937) went the grandest prize in the CAB bag: permission to fly the "Gold Coast" run, with National and Eastern...
Dawn was breaking over Edwards Air Force Base at California's Muroc Dry Lake when the husky, dark-browed test pilot chugged up to the flight line in a battered model A Ford coupe. Lieut. Colonel Frank K. Everest Jr., 35, wiggled into his girdle-tight high-altitude suit, picked up his crash helmet and headed for the runway where a four-engined B50 waited. Clamped tight to the B-50's fat belly was "Pete" Everest's aircraft-a sleek, needle-nosed little job with "Bell X2" painted on its sides...
...Fastest Gun Alive (MGM) misfires before it is clear of the holster. The gun (a frontier-model .45) belongs to Broderick Crawford, a hulking fellow with itchy fingers and the single-barreled aim of killing any man who claims to be quicker on the draw. But even as he drills a slower man out in Silver Rapids, a blind seer mocks him: "No matter how fast you are, there's always somebody faster." Crawford like to have strangled...