Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commenting on the much-debated activities of the Fund for the Republic, an autonomous child of the Ford Foundation (TIME, Nov. 28), Ford wrote in a letter last week: "Some of its [the Fund's] actions, I feel, have been dubious in character and inevitably have led to charges of poor judgment. What effect my comments may have remains to be seen. I am satisfied, however, that no public trust can expect to fulfill its responsibilities if it does not respond to intelligent and constructive public criticism...
When Travis decided to record some coal miners' songs in 1947, there were hardly any to be found, so he wrote some-including Sixteen Tons. It was recorded for Capitol recently by deep-voiced Tennessee Ernie Ford, and leaped to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made. It has a driving beat, like the cars clanking to and from the underground yard, and its words carry a kind of homey cynicism: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...
...year franchises of all its 17,000 dealers into five-year contracts. The announcement caught Subcommittee Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney by surprise, but he quickly broke into a pleased smile and congratulated Curtice for taking "the suggestion I made when you were last here... I hope that Ford will promptly take congnizance of what you have done, and Chrystler likewise...
...purposes of argument, I assume a rise of enrollment of 100 per cent in the next 15 years, the rise to be gradual from 1954-55. This is a reasonably good, informed guess. The Ford Foundation, in a careful study, puts the enrollment by 1970 within the limits of 5-7 million as against the current level of 2 1/2 million. That means a rise of 100-180 per cent. I believe the 180 per cent figure to be a most unlikely...
...past Ford grants, the money for colleges, along with $200,000,000 for private hospitals and $90,000,000 for medical schools, was earmarked for specific purposes. But for the first time each institution will be allowed to tailor its new income to fit its individual needs...