Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the offices of Detroit's United Foundation, a representative of the Ford Motor Co. brings its share: $550,000. From nearly all of Ford's 87,700 employees in metropolitan Detroit comes another sum: $1,600,000. The telling fact: in 1956, as in 1955, Detroit's big corporations contributed about 31% of the city's United Foundation total of $16,201,540; yet, the employees in Detroit's industries equaled their 1955 percentage (57.6%), despite unemployment in the automotive business...
Owlish Pollster Elmo Roper was elected board chairman of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, replacing ex-Automaker Paul G. Hoffman...
...John Ford's great 1940 classic is with us once more--this time without its inevitable companion feature, Grapes of Wrath. For those who have missed the film the first twenty-three times around, Tobacco Road, based on a novel by Erskine Caldwell, concerns a poor-white Georgia dirt farmer named Jeeter Lester who tries to dig up $100 so he can keep his depression-haunted homestead out of the clutches of the bank. Not a man of boundless energy, Jeeter's attempts to secure the money, which include the theft of his son's car, turn...
...picture's social commentary has palled a bit in sixteen years, it does get in some splendid and appropriate thrusts at the blessings of hymn-singing religion. Fortunately, also, the lasting success of the film rests less on its satire than on some first-rate performances and photography. Ford's cameras concentrate on the poverty and squalor of the region. But in a few shots such as one of a fence outlined against the sky, the countryside is transformed and becomes almost beautiful...
...America named him the 1956 "Star Farmer of America," and successor to igss's winner, Joe Moore of Tennessee (TIME, Oct. 24. 1955). This week, in celebration, Patrick's Brooks County farmer friends held a giant barbecue for him (6,000 chickens, i.ooo pecan pies). The Ford Motor Co. got into the act, picked up the food tab. gave Patrick one of its new combination pickup truck and passenger cars which the company will start producing for the farm trade next month...