Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford on scholarships. He began reading during the Depression because "it was the cheapest pleasure around." He hopes to come out of the show with enough money to take his wife to Europe on his first vacation in five years. Jim was recently appointed police court prosecutor in Hart ford. Bill works for the state tax commis sion. With these jobs and their private law practice, they have a combined yearly income of about $30,000. But there are many lean years behind them, and Jim, for one, was not inclined recklessly to risk what they have already won. "After...
...York Stock Exchange's big ticker screens one morning last week flashed a cryptic legend: "F 135 62." Immediately, the cavernous trading room erupted with cheers and popping flashbulbs. The symbol "F," unused since Consolidated Vultee Aircraft gave it up two years ago, now belonged to the Ford Motor Co., which at 10:02 a.m. on Wednesday began its first day of stock trading on the big board...
Before it arrived in the big time, Ford stock, held by 350,000 people, had been through seven weeks of seasoning on the over-the-counter market, a settling-down period required by the Exchange before listing a new stock. The seasoning had been hard on many over-the-counter brokers. Few of them get their income from stock-handling commissions, as do big-board brokers; instead, they buy stock with their own money for sale at a profit. But they found it hard to make money on Ford stock. Issued at 64½ a share, it shot...
THOUGH its history is brief, automation already has its own folklore. One of its most widely told legends concerns C.I.O. President Walter P. Reuther and a Ford executive who were touring Ford's automated engine plant in Cleveland. As they strode past huge self-operating tools that bored cylinder holes, positioned connecting rods and bolted down manifolds, the Ford executive wisecracked: "You know, not one of these machines pays dues to the U.A.W." Retorted Reuther: "And not one of them buys new Ford cars, either...
...Thomas M. Bergin '57, and Roger D. Irle '56 won for Dunster with their negative arguments against Robert H. Secrist '57, William S. Bahary '57, and Jerome Halberstadt of Lowell. Winthrop's negative team of James E. Price '58 and Richard C. Stillman '58 defeated Kirkland's Maurice G. Ford '58 and Robert Lifson '57. Adams, represented by William C. Brady '57, Sherwood Waldron '58, and Robert E. Ausnit '57 lost to David F. Hayes '58, Anthony P. Giordano '58, and Henry L. Tafe '58, who upheld the affirmative for Dudley. Leverett's affirmative, composed of James H. Reiss...