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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Top Priority. In an announcement that was precedent-setting for Detroit, he committed the Ford Motor Co. "to an intensified effort to minimize pollution from its products and plants in the shortest possible time." Top priority in Ford's program will be given to cleaning up the internal-combustion...
> A device that will check for the emission of pollution from cars while they are still on the assembly line.
Ford's efforts will be costly-and not only to Ford. The company has budgeted some $31 million for vehicle pollution control next year. It will also spend approximately $60 million to cut air and water pollution at Ford plants over the next two years. But in the end...
While all the improved devices in Ford's future may eventually reduce the exhaust pollution of internal-combustion engines by 90%, the ultimate solution to the problem could well be a new kind of power source. Ford has already experimented with electric cars and gas-turbine engines for trucks...
Just when most farmers are settling down for a winter's rest, Virgil Steyer Jr. is usually working hardest. Steyer grows Christmas trees on large tracts near secluded Mount Storm, W. Va. (pop: 160); every December he serves droves of customers attracted from miles around by the high quality...