Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many a U.S. company operating overseas, e.g., General Motors, Ford, the Arabian American Oil Co., Sears, Roebuck, has taken the lead in raising wages and improving local working conditions...
...Everybody thought he had a God-given duty to go out and buy Ford stock," groaned a harried Chicago stockbroker. "We didn't have near enough to go around...
...Wall Street expected, the 10.2 million shares of Ford stock put on sale for $64.50 by the Ford Foundation promptly "went out the window" on F-day. The seven syndicate managers (Blyth & Co., Inc.; First Boston Corp.; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Lehman Bros.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane; White, Weld & Co.) each got 307,500 shares. But the 2,000 other firms that helped sell the issue got far less, sometimes as few as 1,500. Even giant Merrill Lynch could average only 9.7 shares per sale in its 114 offices...
Canadian dealers, free from SEC rules, began trading the stock several hours before the SEC officially approved the U.S. stock registration. In short order the price soared to $69.25 a share. In U.S. over-the-counter markets (Ford will not go on the New York Stock Exchange until about March 1), it shot to $70.75; on European markets it rose...
...More than half the businessmen who come in for checkups at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic are so keyed up that they must be warned to slow down or face heart disease, ulcers, colitis and high blood pressure. Of 1,000 executives examined at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital in a two-year period, 30% were found to have "abnormal physical conditions," serious enough to affect their working efficiency and endanger their health...