Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stint as financial analyst for the Air Force. Doc Briggs got his nickname by starting as a first-aid man at Ford's Chicago branch assembly plant, rapidly earned a reputation as a financial wizard, traveled widely for Ford in Europe and the Middle East, returned to Dearborn in 1929 to begin his rise...
Only three weeks had passed since the University of Michigan announced that the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford Motor Company Fund had given it 210 acres, including the home of Henry Ford, and $6,500,000 to start a branch college at Dearborn (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week Arch Rival Michigan State University of East Lansing announced a windfall of its own-the 1,400-acre Oakland County estate belonging to the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. In addition, the Wilsons were kicking in $2,000,000 to endow an M.S.U...
...head-on." Ford proved as good as his word. This week, the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford Motor Company Fund* offered the University of Michigan enough money ($6,500,000) and enough land (210 acres, valued at more than $3,000,000) to start a cooperative college in Dearborn...
Planned for 2,700 students, the Dearborn center will give regular liberal-arts courses as well as work in engineering and business administration. But students will divide their time between academic work and jobs in industry. Michigan's first experiment in cooperative education, the center also represents the largest single gift ever made by a corporation to a college or university...
...chling family is to the steel-rich Saar what the Fords are to Dearborn, Mich. Longtime producers of one-third of the Saar's steel, the Röchlings hold the key to the basin's rich economy, the deciding weight in the industrial balance of power between France and Germany. Both in 1919 and 1946, France took over the Röchling empire in an effort to swallow the Saar. Just 20 months ago Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay promised the French Senate, "The Röchlings will never return to the Saar." But six months after...