Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Wall Street was baking a pie much suited to Funston's taste; it was getting ready to float the first public stock issue of the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings...
...Salzburg Seminar program has received an unexpected five-year grant totalling $125,000 from the Ford Foundation, Dexter Perkins '09, president of the Seminar, announced yesterday...
There was no doubt that investors would scramble for the stock when it reaches the market early next year. One big reason was the magic of the Ford name. But probably a bigger reason to hardheaded investors was the earnings of the Ford company. Some 400 investment houses, which will participate in selling the stock to the public, are already being flooded with orders to buy, no matter what the price. Board Chairman Ernest R. Breech reported last week that the company will earn more before taxes this year (an estimated $700 million) than it did in the entire...
...fast is the U.S. boom growing? Much faster than most businessmen think, Ford Motor Co. Board Chairman Ernest R. Breech told the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce last week. "The big boom we have all been anticipating for the early 1960's is no longer a distant dream. We have no choice but to prepare for a major breakthrough into a new and much higher plateau of production and consumption...
Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy (TIME...