Word: zephyr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he can punch out his own mathematical visions. At 8 o'clock he has his invariable breakfast of one egg, one piece of white toast, one cup of black coffee. Shortly before 9, he walks to his four-car garage, steps into his 1941 black Lincoln Zephyr, swings around a fishpond in his front yard and out through wrought-iron gates. In ten minutes, he drives to his Santa Monica factory. He steps from his car, walks an exact 24 steps into his walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with...
...never regained it. From then on Edsel's influence caused the Ford Co. to cater to the public. Edsel established the styling division-Fords had been designed by Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. up till then-made Fords slicker, more eye-pleasing. He launched the Zephyr and the luxurious Lincoln-Continental. With his death (TIME, June 7) all this was bound to change. The dropping of the three Ford men showed how far the change has gone. They were the last of the tight little group Edsel had formed to carry out his newfangled ideas...
Henry Ford kept his shrewd mouth shut clam-tight about the changes. But many a motor-wise man made good guesses. Most likely: when auto production is resumed, Ford will drop its Zephyr and Lincoln-Continental lines; will turn its designing job over to outsiders again; will concentrate on turning out frill-free cars cheaper and faster than anyone else. In effect, the Lizzie would again become a kind of family jeep...
...efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...
...addition many other signs of negligence and abuse were discovered: four of the items enumerated on Snell's original bill were either not attempted or not completed satisfactorily; and the bill for parts was in excess of quoted Lincoln-Zephyr prices effective at that time...