Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the Ford Foundation, which has spent close to $1 billion in charitable, educational and scientific pursuits, came word last week of a pioneer diplomatic move. President Henry T. Heald announced before a meeting of the Chicago Executives' Club that the foundation will devote $500,000 toward stimulating a cultural interchange between the U.S. and Poland. Aware of the problems involved in dealing with a nation that teeters so warily in the Soviet shadow, Heald said that "recent developments," i.e., the Polish deliverance from Moscow's iron rule, as well as the Eisenhower Administration's tentative foreign...
...Ford Foundation plans-which were approved quietly by the U.S. State Department-call for exchange visits between Poland and the U.S. and West European countries of engineers, social science professionals, architects, educators and students, as well as shipments of books and periodicals to Polish libraries, institutions and individuals. "We know," Heald said, "that activity of an educational or scientific character is not a substitute for the essential security efforts of our Government. But we have the conviction that in the development of international understanding there is a proper and vital role for private institutions, including private philanthropy...
...Detroit the latest evidence of creeping inflation promptly provoked a new hassle between management and labor over the question: Do wages push up prices or do prices push up wages? Ford Motor Co.'s Vice President John S. Bugas, eying Walter Reuther's promise to win his United Auto Workers a shorter work week and "a hell of a lot" more money in 1958, put much of the blame for the current inflation on labor's demands for ever higher wages and fringe benefits. Argued Bugas: since 1954 wage packages have exceeded 5% annually in key industries...
...Choice, Anne Baxter was hopelessly involved-and tearily terrible-as an Army nurse whose deliberate anger was supposed to scalpel through a G.I.'s shell of apathy. As Social Lioness Dolly Madison trying to make a Washington comeback, a bespectacled and bewigged Bette Davis had her moments on Ford Theater, but Bette's vehicle, Footnote on a Doll, was far too rickety for the big Potomac. And Kaiser Aluminum's musicomedy jape, A Man's Game, went a long way toward scotching the prevailing theory that baseball can be successfully dramatized. As a lady pitcher. Nanette...
...Price Class. Ford Fairlane 500 "6," 22.2534 m.p.g., 52.5181 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air "8," 21.2636 m.p.g., 49-4378 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air "6," 21.4948 m.p.g., 49.0080 t.m.p.g.; Rambler Rebel "8," 21.6214 m.p.g., 47.8914 t.m.p.g.; Ford Fairlane 500 "8," 19.1567 m-p-g-, 45-4013 t.m.p.g...