Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood standards, Johnny Cash's $50,000 ranch house, the single Cadillac and the li'l old Ford Thunderbird are unspectacular. But by anybody's standards, the Cash household is unhinged...
...spreading oak of a lad (204 lbs., 6 ft. ½ in.), Johansson has risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
Automen estimate that the Ford, Thunderbird, Mercury, Edsel, Lincoln and Continental now have a third of the 1959 model market, compared to 28% during the 1958 model year. The face-lifted Ford is apparently outselling the completely redesigned Chevy, whose manufacturer was harder hit by strikes than Ford, has had trouble getting enough cars to dealers. Not until January will Chevy production catch up to Ford. Ford's orders are double last year's, dealers are down to a low 21-day inventory, and Ford says it is having a tough time meeting demand. Boasted Ford General Sales...
White and Dugan exchanged bitter words near the company gate. Then White rode off in his 1958 Thunderbird, and Dugan took off after him in his 1956 Ford station wagon. Two sheriff's deputies, on duty at the plant, spotted the two cars pulling away, decided to go after them. Half a mile away, the deputies came across Dugan's parked car. Nearby, they found Dugan's body, sprawled face downward beside a brook. He had been shot in the back. As police reconstructed the shooting, Dugan, unarmed this time, ran away when White drew his pistol...
...week over last. Ford also started production of its new Galaxie (TIME, July 28), dreamed up last spring after Ford got a worried look at smuggled sketches of the 1959 Chevrolet. Rushed into production to compete with the Chevrolet Impala, the Galaxie series of six models has an elongated Thunderbird roof set on a Fairlane 500 body, lists at $2,303 to $2,591. Sight unseen, Ford's new car has already drawn 65,000 orders from dealers...