Summary
50 years ago, June 7, 1954, Ford formed its Edsel design team. Ford was on a roll. The '54 Thunderbird had aced the Chevy Corvette. Americans liked big, high-horse-power, wing-styled cars, with great slabs of chrome. Ford's new car was named after Edsel Ford, Henry's son, a skilled designer, but consumer tastes changed by the time Edsel debuted in 1957. It laid an egg, costing Ford $250 million.
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American Chronicles
225 years ago, in the fourth year of America's War for Independence, the situation looked bleak. On June 1, 177...
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