Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William C. Ford, grandson of Henry, was elected a director of the Ford Motor Co., eight months before he would graduate from Yale...
...only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame in the rear. Price of the '49 Ford: $1,163 and up, f.o.b. Detroit, an average increase...
Short Putt. In North College Hill, Ohio, Charles A. Lasure, 82, rested overnight after a 1,000-mile junket from Ardmore, Okla., then started back the way he had come: by motor scooter...
Akihito, riding his motor scooter around the grounds of his palace in East Tokyo, seemed in no hurry to become a symbol...
...many of his underlings, fed up with his imperious one-man rule, did. As such smart merchandisers as Walter Hoving (see below) and the Ford Motor Co.'s Albert Browning left, they jokingly formed the "Has-Been Club." In due time they took in 21 Ward has-been presidents and top executives. Not till Vice President Wilbur Harrington Norton, 44, became president in 1946 did Chairman Avery have someone who was ready to dish out rough treatment as well as take...