Remember to clean the edges and sides of your cabinets. The brands span skincare, makeup, hair, and fragrance, including Good Housekeeping Seal star Korres, plus Good Housekeeping Institute Beauty Lab top-tested favorites Caudalie, Biossance, and Ren Clean Skincare. How do I clean my camera lens properly? V-8s were down to a 200-bhp 292, 225-bhp 332, and 300-bhp 352. Also carried over from ’58 was Cruise-O-Matic, Ford’s smooth new three-speed automatic transmission that proved a sales plus against Chevrolet’s Powerglide, if not Plymouth’s responsive three-speed TorqueFlite. V-8 choices expanded via two new “FE-series” big-blocks: a 332 offering 240/265 horsepower, and a 300-bhp 352. A deep national recession cut Ford volume to just under 988,000 cars. The 1957 Fords were all-new, offering a vast array of V-8s from a 190-bhp 272 up to a 245-bhp 312. The 223-cid six was standard for all but one model. When it comes to hiring a cleaning lady, one of the biggest considerations is the price. Unfortunately, the Fords had some structural weaknesses (principally roof panels) and were prone to rust, one reason you don’t see that many today. Styling was handled by Franklin Q. Hershey, who also gets credit for that year’s new two-seat Thunderbird (see separate entry).

Club coupes were abandoned, wagons grouped in a separate series, and Crestline was renamed Fairlane (after the Ford family estate in Dearborn). There was also a novel new hardtop called Skyliner, a Crestline Victoria with a transparent, green-tint Plexiglas roof insert over the front seat. Chevrolet sold over 1.1 million, but spent much more money to do so. Ford’s path through the 1960s closely parallels that of rival Chevrolet. Ford’s ’57 styling was particularly simple for the period: a blunt face with clean, full-width rectangular grille; tasteful side moldings; and tiny tailfins. Haulers comprised plain and fancier Del Rio two-door Ranch Wagons, a pair of four-door Country Sedans, and the wood-look four-door Squire — Ford’s priciest ’57 wagon at $2684. That and a price identical with the Sunliner convertible’s — $2164 — held ’54 Skyliner sales to 13,344. Only the Country Squire and Mainline business coupe fared worse. The glamorous droptop Sunliner was now a Fairlane 500 and came with the base V-8. At the same time, the Sunliner convertible and Skyliner retractable gained Galaxie rear-fender script (but retained Fairlane 500 ID at the rear). Come midseason, a new Galaxie series of two- and four-door pillared and pillarless sedans generated high buyer interest and strong sales with their square but stylish Thunderbird-inspired wide-quarter rooflines.

Compression was 7.2:1 in base trim, but could be taken as high as 12:1 if required (which it wasn’t). A major reskin of the basic 1957-58 bodyshells brought square lines; simple side moldings; a heavily sculptured “flying-V” back panel; and a low, rectangular grille filled with floating starlike ornaments. But it cast a strange light on the interior, and heat buildup was a major problem. Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for six massive offshore wind (OSW) projects in the New York Bight: Bluepoint Wind, Attentive Energy, LLC, Community Offshore Wind, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Bight, LLC, Leading Light Wind, Excelsior (Vineyard Wind Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind LLC). The rest of the ’54 story was basically 1953 save a larger, 223-cid overhead-valve six with 115 bhp. Combined with unboxed numbers, this can save unnecessary allocations and memory accesses. Granted, when you eat away from home, you may have less control over how the foods are prepared and which ingredients are used, but you can control which foods you choose and how much of them you consume. Hawthorn also may help control arrhythmias and palpitations.

Assuming control of a third-rate company in 1945, they’d turned it into something approaching General Motors in less than 15 years. For Ford Motor Company as a whole, 1959 seemed to justify the strenuous efforts of Henry Ford II and board chairman Ernest R. Breech. Chevy then unveiled an all-new line of radical “bat-fin” cars for 1959. Ford replied with more-conservative styling that helped it close the model-year gap to less than 12,000 units. Together with ball-joint front suspension, also new, the Y-block greatly narrowed the engineering gap between expensive and inexpensive cars. At decade’s end, it was also selling only about 400,000 more cars per year than in 1960 — despite expansion into important new markets: economy compacts, intermediates, and sportier standard-size models. With the “horsepower race” at full gallop, the 239-cid V-8 was ousted for a 272 enlargement, packing 162/182 horsepower as an option for all models. Speaking of which, the 272 V-8 delivered 173 horsepower as a ’56 Mainline/Customline option. A new 312-cid “Thunderbird” unit with 215/225 horsepower was ­optional across the board, and a midrange 292-cid V-8 offered 200 horsepower. A full steel-roof model was also offered for $70 less than the “bubble-topper”; predictably, it sold much better: 33,000-plus to just 1999. The totals were 9209 and just 603 for ’56, after which the Crown Vic was dumped.