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...comfort or convenience. Terrace Plaza bedrooms can be turned into living rooms by day, have multi-purpose closets with built-in desks and bars. The huge windowless base will be a shopping center and office building, housing such varied tenants as J. C. Penney Co., Lever Bros, and Ford Motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: New Landmark | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Died. Albert Jesse Browning, 48, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., wartime director of purchases for the U.S. Army; of a heart ailment; in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Flivver. Ford Motor Co., which had upped the price of its 1949 Ford by $85 to $125, last week ordered its dealers to figure their markups (25%) on the old prices (thus cutting their profit by an average $25-per-car). The grey market was already placing a far different price structure on the new Ford. On "used" car lots, new models were selling at $3,000 (the Detroit-delivered price ranges from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Jul. 5, 1948 | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Bell XS-1, with its rocket motor and two-minute fuel supply, is merely a flying laboratory, but the F-86A is a practical military aircraft (see BUSINESS). One of the secrets of its speed is probably its swept-back wings. When the plane itself is flying faster than sound, the air passes over the back-slanted wing at less than sonic speed, and so makes less trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster & Faster | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Steel. Although steel production reached 7,564,626 net tons in May, a new peacetime record, cutbacks resulting from the coal strike were still felt by motor-makers. General Motors closed down its Michigan operations and laid off 200,000 men for a week in order to accumulate enough steel for continuous production. The Ford Motor Co. closed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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