Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Public Administration, the Foundation has a function similar to that of the "Program." It solicits these alumni annually, and obtains a "fluid fund" which it uses for research grants, usually to first-year graduate students whose work does not yet merit attention from a large institution such as the Ford Foundation...
Some seven or eight years ago, John Ford directed a technicolor opus called The Quiet Man, about a red haired colleen and an ex-boxer come back to the ould sod. Now, as if in atonement for that bit of profitable fakery, Ford has given us The Rising of the Moon, a little trio of flicks full of peat, poteen and artistry...
...less than appliance men, Detroit's automakers are fully aware of the repair problem. A Ford Motor Co. poll showed that 94% of all car buyers will return to the same dealer if they get good service, only 21% if service is bad. When Ford set up its new Edsel division, it realized that it would be hard to sell cars without expert service. Ford set up a complete garage where $1,000,000 worth of prototype cars were torn down and rebuilt to lick all servicing problems before the first Edsel was sold. Says Edsel Service Manager Harold...
Robert Frost will visit Adams House this year on the newly increased Ford Foundation grant to the Houses, Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams, has disclosed. Student and faculty committees in Dudley and the other Houses have also made tentative plans for use of the grant which this year totals...
Musical events will also be included in Kirkland House plans for the Ford grant. A joint faculty-student committee is tentatively planning concerts and talks by modern critics, and fairly definite plans have been made to finance a literary magazine in the House...