Word: tudors
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...ceilings, to take care of rising wage and material costs. From now on, new car buyers must agree to add the increase, when OPA decides on the amount, to the price of their car. Reflecting auto wage increases, the first boost may be 5%. Price of a Ford Tudor Sedan, for example, would be increased by $45. Eventually, as the new wage policy boosts costs all along the line, automen expect the increases to run as high...
...said he, "the super deluxe Tudor [most popular Ford, which retailed at about $750 F.O.B.] represented a total manufacturing cost of $512. . . . Material costs were $304, direct labor costs were $76 and overhead amounted to $132. . . . Looking at the November, 1945 cost records [of this model], when production was comparatively low, we find that total manufacturing costs added up to $962 ... or 87% more than...
...could scrap its obsolete clippers (as Pan Am plans to do), buy surplus U.S. landplanes. But the British Government prefers not to shock proud Britons by using U.S. planes. Britons fallaciously believe that their own planemakers will soon produce suitable landplanes. Actually, Britain's first postwar landplane, the Tudor, will not be ready until spring, has no chance to compete with U.S. planes...
...years before. Romantically stirred by a novel he has written about her, she again agrees to elope, again doesn't quite. Unlike the usual musicomedy plot, this one is never for a moment let out of the audience's sight, is even shoved into two boring Antony Tudor ballets. Vocally it pays off with such schmalzy tunes as The Day before Spring and / Love You This Morning, a lively ditty called Where's My Wife...
...cold, rainy morning in the reign of Mary Tudor, an official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...