Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy (TIME...
...January the Fund for the Republic, a $15 million Ford Foundation offshoot, completed the first of 50-odd projects it has launched to enlighten the U.S. about its civil rights. The project, supervised by Harvard Law Professor Arthur E. Suther land: a 474-page Bibliography on the Communist Problem in the U.S., which took 18 months and $67,000 to prepare. Last week the book received scathing criticism...
...despite antimonopoly rumblings from the Justice Department. With 50% of U.S. auto sales thus far in 1955, G.M. is boosting prices on 1956 models less than its competitors, has upped Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac between 2% and 5% v. increases of 3% to 8% for competing Ford and Chrysler models...
...SALE OF FORD STOCK will be announced within the next few weeks by the Ford Foundation, which is winding up final details with the Internal Revenue Service and the SEC. The stock offering could hardly come at a better time: the annual Ford Motor Co. balance sheet filed with the Commissioner of Corporations of Massachusetts, the only state where Ford is required to do so, shows that the company's 1954 surplus rose by $144.2 million, giving Ford estimated earnings of at least $40 per share (plus dividends) on the basis of 3,452,900 shares outstanding...
...above the previous peak of $93,525,000, set in 1953. Other record-setters: Sylvania Electric Products, with $9,556,210, 55% over last year; American Can, with $28,932,161, up 18%; Alcoa, with $55.779.754, 71% over 1954; Vanadium Corp., with $42,516,191, up 59%; Libbey-Owens-Ford, with...