Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHRYSLER COMEBACK is losing some of its steam. While General Motors (with 53% of the market) has cut back production 6% and Ford (with 26%) has cut back 16%, Chrysler production has slumped 29% from its 1955 pace, now holds only 17% of the auto market v. 19% at this time last year. Biggest loser: Dodge, down 50% from...
Keppel cited a recent speech of H. Rowan Gaither, president of the Ford Foundation, as a sign that business intends to continue to aid education. In his speech, at a Boston Chamber of Commerce dinner, Gaither called on "communities and industries alike" to join in strengthening the financial structure of the nation's education...
...large programs are now operating: the General Motors National Program, and National Merit Scholarships, a $20,000,000 offspring of the Ford Foundation, born last September. Both plans have one stated aim--to draw more of America's potential talent into higher education, the highroad to an industrial desk...
...trying to sell cars, the publicity given this program may make it worthwhile. But if General Motors, or the Ford Foundation, wants to attract more intelligent students to higher education, they must not only pay the bills but create the demand...
Barnes did not say how much of the business Ford, Chrysler, or G.M. has a right to expect, or just how the Government could try to regulate their shares. Commented the Wall Street Journal: "We doubt very much if Mr. Barnes will ever be able to set any such figures, for the fact of the matter is that they are set by the public . . . There is no law we know of which allows a Government agency to force people to buy a car different from the one they want...