Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who have avoided these restrictive influences and has actually completed a trip to Russia is Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History. Under the auspices of the Ford Foundation and a group of University libraries, including Widener, he spent five months in Russia to arrange for book exchanges between the United States and the USSR. He had success in his mission. And, more important, he had the chance to talk with Russian students and teachers in their own language over an extended period of time without the "cooperation" of Intourist. His findings are significant largely because they illustrate that...
...Corporation must decide how to allocate the Ford Foundation's $4.5 million grant of last December for salary increases. The Compensation Committee's proposals would cost $480,000 per year, almost ten percent of present salaries...
Coined only eight years ago by Ford Executive Vice President Delmar S. Harder, "automation" first described the automatic transfer of auto parts from one metalworking machine to the next. But its meaning has broadened as fast as its application. A few purists still claim that it should be applied only to completely automatic machines that feed back into themselves reports of how they are doing, and correct themselves if necessary. But most businessmen lump under automation all automatic machines and processes, including the giant tools that follow directions punched on a tape, huge computers that make thousands of intricate mathematical...
...keeps getting bigger. Though overall U.S. auto production was off 17% in the first two months of 1956, G.M. increased its slice of the market to 55%. Chrysler's share in the same two months dropped from 17.1%, its 1955 average, to 15%; Ford's output slid from 28.2% to 25%. American Motors and Studebaker-Packard each clung to 2.5% of total production...
...some of us will live long enough to see men reach other planets," Whipple predicted at a Ford Hall Forum discussion last night...