Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking into Evelyn's disappearance, a Los Angeles grand jury indicted Scott on 13 counts of forgery and theft. Jumping $25,000 bail, he fled to Canada. A year later Canadian customs officers arrested him as he was trying to re-enter Canada after buying a new 1957 Ford in Detroit. Meanwhile, the grand jury had reconsidered the case and returned a new indictment against Scott. The charge: murder...
...Catholic educational system are not producing anywhere near their proportion of leaders. Of the 96 U.S. Senators, there are, for example, only ten Catholics; of the 50 so-called business leaders announced by Forbes magazine last month, only two are Catholics, and one of these two, Henry Ford II, is a convert. Even casual observation of the daily newspapers and the weekly news magazines leads a Catholic to ask, where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...
...only strengthen their schools and colleges, but recapture their tradition as intellectual leaders. Unfortunately, the 2,500,000 alumni of Catholic colleges and universities do not seem to be doing much of anything. "I am a member of the board of the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford Foundation. In the last six years we have given away $29 million . . . Not a single Catholic program of liberal adult education has, so far as I can remember, received a dime. This has been due, not to bigotry, but to the fact that there has not been one request made which...
Around the nation, there was a sprinkling of layoffs and forced "vacations"; Chrysler shut down major plants for the year's last two weeks, laid off some 60,000 workers, Ford another 35,000. As the jobless rose to about 3,700,000 in December (2,500,000 in December 1956), economists speculated that unemployment might hit 4,500,000 by midwinter...
...success in 1957's hotly competitive marketplace. With more choice than ever before, customers shopped for style as well. While G.M. slipped back from 51.5% to 44.4% of the auto market, Chrysler's jet-finned new models jumped from 15.4% to 19% of the market, and Ford's crisp styling apparently nudged it ahead of Chewy into the No. 1 sales spotlight for the first time since...