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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never known to get excited or waste a word. Chancellor Heald was running true to form when he called in his top staffmen one day last June to hear a special announcement. "Gentlemen," said he matter-of-factly, "they've offered me the presidency of the Ford Foundation, and I don't see how anyone in education could turn it down." "That was all there was to it," recalls one of those present. "Here was a man getting the most important educational job in the U.S., and he summed it up in one sentence-period. He went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Philanthropoid No. 1 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...chief reasons for the industry's drop in index is the disappointing performance of the auto industry, which is still drawing heavily on its steel inventories. Last week, Henry Ford noted that Ford automobile sales were up 14%, and the company will gross a record $3 billion in the first half. He predicted that "industry new-car sales for 1957 should equal or exceed slightly the 5,800,000 sold in 1956"-well below the 6,500,000 figure originally predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Optimistic Mood | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Robert S. McNamara, 40, one of the youthful "whiz kids" brought in from the Air Forces after World War II to streamline Ford Motor Co. financial management, became the No. 4 man in the huge Ford empire. McNamara was named group vice president in charge of all car and truck divisions, succeeding ailing Executive Vice President Lewis D. Crusoe, 62, who retired. McNamara, who has been vice president and general manager of the Ford Division since 1955, will rank after Board Chairman Ernest Breech, 60, President Henry Ford II and Del Harder, 65, executive vice president for basic manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...product of the Harvard Business School, McNamara first worked for Price, Waterhouse & Co., became an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard, then joined the Army Air Forces where he was a lieutenant colonel in charge of statistical control at Wright-Patterson field when Ford hired him in 1946 to work in the financial analysis office, promoted him to comptroller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

While Audience's poetic whimsies represent the prevailing tone, the three most interesting poems are in a more serious vein. Arthur Freeman's two pieces remind one of the psychological narrative of Ford Madox Ford: the first one with its use of colors, the second with its mutely horror-stricken irony and its dramatic development. Freeman's contributions are by far the most sincere and effective ones in the issue. John Hollander's and Richard Howard's joint whirl into impressionism is the only other serious poem which need be taken seriously. Sandra Hochman's two poems, however, at least...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Audience | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

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