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...Dearborn this week, Benson Ford took his turn at the family steering wheel. Out of his Lincoln-Mercury Motor Division he rolled two sleek new low-slung cars-the 1949 model Lincolns. The Ford Motor Co., first of the Big Three to make radical body changes in all its cars, had spent $90 million doing it. Ben Ford's Lincolns were the first models unwrapped...
...original note came from Subject R, whose reasons were: (a) Money (side bets); (2) Waste time between race results; (c) Waste time; (d) Objective test of motor skill...
...Light. The Federal Trade Commission ordered Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. to stop advertising that it had created or designed the "jeep." Said FTC: although Willys-Overland "made an outstanding contribution in its powerful engine as well as in other features of the vehicle," the credit belonged jointly to four companies-Willys-Overland, American Bantam Car Co., Ford Motor Co., Spicer Manufacturing Co. (now Dana Corp.)-and the Army...
...Wright Brothers endeavored to take off in the manner you describe [TIME, Feb. 9], they would still be sitting on their skids at Kitty Hawk. ... It was quite impossible for a 12 h.p. motor to lift that plane off the ground. It was launched by a catapult, which consisted of a heavy weight hoisted to the top of a triangular tower and attached by ropes and pulleys to the front of a monorail car running on a wooden track. The plane was balanced on the car, and as the engine revved up, the weight was released. The car hurtled down...
Henry Ford II, speaking in Stockholm on the U.S.S.R.: "We do not want to do business with Russian-dominated countries." He later admitted that the Ford Motor Co. still owns a plant in one of the countries behind the curtain, and intends to liquidate it. He added vaguely: "I forget which country...