Word: forde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even so, Detroit thought the small car was just a fad. TIME was not so sure. In a cover story on Ford Styling Chief George Walker (Nov. 4, 1957), TIME underscored the rising chorus of complaints that "Detroit's new chariots are too long, too heavy, too brassy." What TIME was reporting did not agree with many of the automakers' market surveys. But when auto sales skidded down sharply, TIME again updated the subject in a cover story on the Big Three (May 12, 1958), buttonholed motorists around the land. TIME found that they really thought U.S. cars...
...Averell Harriman, former Governor of New York, will open the 52nd season of the Ford Hall Forum tomorrow with a lecture entitled "Peace With Russia?" All lectures at the Forum begin at 8 p.m. and are open to the public. Other scheduled speakers...
...March of 1957 SUPRAD received an initial grant of $200,000 from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, a part of the Ford Foundation. Soon thereafter the educators began planning the series of experiments and demonstrations, most of which are now well under...
...families who do have savings plans (40%) managed to save only a median $150 last year. At that rate, it will take them ten years to save enough for one year of college for one child-at current costs, and last year alone costs jumped 9.5%. Concludes Ford Foundation Vice President Clarence Faust: "American parents apparently need to know more about the economics of higher education...
...FORD STOCK SALE has been postponed by Ford Foundation, which planned to market 2,000,000 shares worth $160 million at current market prices. Final decision by foundation, which owns 34,132,239 shares, or 62.2% of all Ford stock, will not come until at least November...