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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the colonel had other ideas about his assignment. Now in its tenth year, the National War College at Ford Lesley McNair in southwest Washington, D.C. has trained 997 promising officers and civilian officials. Though little known outside of Government circles, NWC is in its own way one of the most vital schools of higher learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Grand Strategy | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...slowed-down auto industry, Chrysler's first-quarter profits were down an estimated 50% to some $17 million. Yet giant General Motors, with sales of $3 billion, almost equal to 1955's record, lost only 9% with net earnings of $283 million for the first quarter. Ford's net dropped 28% below last year to $73,700,000, but it was still the second-best first quarter in the company's history. ¶ In chemicals, Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. touched new high ground with first-quarter sales of $310 million, up 18%, and earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: High Tide | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Asia will be the subject of two programs tonight, when a Ford Foundation film on village development in India is shown in New Lecture Hall and John Carter Vincent, former Ambassador to China, speaks in Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Both events begin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asia to Be Subject Of Meetings Tonight | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

Dismayed, the S-P executives considered liquidating the company and selling its plant piecemeal, but rejected the idea almost immediately. They tried sounding out the Big Three on buying out Studebaker-Packard. The only interest was shown by Ford, which plans to bring out a new line some time next year, priced between the Mercury and Lincoln, and could use SP's ready-made setup. After some dickering, Ford declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Help for Studebaker-Packard | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...treat people right, most big corporations, e.g., Ford, Alcoa, G.M., now employ top-level executives to concentrate exclusively on community relations. On the other hand, Du Pont, which operates 69 plants in 25 states, says each plant manager is "Mr. Du Pont in his community . . . the way he runs his plant constitutes the major part of Du Pont's public relations program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: COMPANY TOWNS, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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