Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recess, and the government had ordered the campus ringed by 300 police and cavalry as a "security measure." But some 600 students defiantly rallied to give departing Professor Kubali an ovation, carried him on their shoulders to his car despite his urging that they disperse. In Istanbul on a Ford Foundation project, Columbia University Law Professor Emeritus Elliott Cheatham urged the U.S. ambassador to intervene on Kubali's behalf because "I am sure Professor Kubali's attendance at the Conference on the Rule of Law at the University of Chicago last year strengthened his decision to speak forthrightly...
...life is worth on the trail. As the man lies dying, the other hands sit around and beat their gums about this and that, as if nothing at all unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
...trouble with the auto industry, said Romney, is too much concentration of power by Big Business and Big Labor, too little competition. To increase competition, said Romney, both General Motors and Ford should be forced to split up into smaller companies. Going beyond the auto industry, Romney said that any company should be forced to split up if it has more than 35% of its industry's sales or only 25% if engaged in more than one industry. Since both Ford and G.M. are in several industries, they would each be eligible for only 25% of the auto industry...
...does. American's January production of its small Ramblers was up 163% over the same 1957 period, and Romney expects "a substantial profit in 1958." Every other automaker had a January production slump. Chrysler slashed output 54% below the same period last year, Studebaker-Packard was down 59%, Ford 34%, General Motors...
THUNDERBIRD SOFT TOP that will fold back into trunk like Ford's automatically retractable hardtop, will be put out by Ford this spring. Unlike hardtop convertible, new four-seater Thunderbird wi'l be only semiautomatic, require driver to lower trunk himself...