Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaining that the pope had raped them. He then called a congress of the Cao Dai hierarchy to consider the complaints. Three days before the congress met, Pope Tac decided to get out of town. Loading his two daughters and a bearded cardinal into a sky-blue Ford, he headed for Pnompenh, across the border in Cambodia. General Phuong was glad enough to let him go. Cambodian authorities made it clear that the unseated pope is welcome in their country only on the condition that he does not make a nuisance of himself. "I will take the opportunity...
Yale announced yesterday that it will use the income from December's $4,000,-900, Ford Foundation grant to increase salaries of the Faculty and enlarge retirement and insurance benefits for all faculties...
...FORD STOCK, now trading over the counter (current price: around 62, down 8¾ points from the high and 2½ points below the original offering), will go on the New York Stock Exchange's big board on March 7. Ford will also be listed simultaneously on the Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco exchanges...
AUTO FREIGHT CHARGES for destinations in the South and West will be cut by Ford Motor Co. to satisfy complaints by dealers. Though Ford will still charge "phantom freight," i.e., on the basis of mileage from Detroit no matter how near dealers are to local assembly plants, the company will cut the charges as much as $49 on a Ford and $58 on a Lincoln. However, part of the reduction will be counteracted by a $16 wholesale price increase on Fords...
...Michigan's Upper Peninsula lie vast iron deposits that have long resisted ore-hungry steelmen. The ore is jasper, a diamond-hard rock that blunts ordinary drills, is too low in iron content (about 33%) for conventional refining methods. Five years ago Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with Ford Motor Co., set up pilot operations to mine and process* jasper by a new method. Last week Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette plants will grind some...