Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donald K. David, former dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the Ford Foundation, it was learned yesterday...
...looked as if the decision would go to the critics. Ed's sponsor, Emerson Radio, dropped him after 26 weeks. Then he heard that CBS was offering Toast of the Town to prospective buyers-with or without Ed Sullivan. Ed's salvation came from Detroit, where the Ford Motor Co. grabbed the show. Mercury General Sales Manager Joe Bayne, an old radio veteran who had worked with Major Bowes in the heyday of his Amateur Hour, says: "It took us less than 20 minutes to decide on Ed Sullivan. It was crystal clear. Ed was a second Major...
...FORD PROFITS in 1955 will be the highest in history, predicts President Henry Ford II. Though privately owned Ford never releases financial data, earnings will be well above 1954's estimated $200 million. One reason, says Ford: the company has spent $1.6 billion for expansion since 1946, has announced a $500 million expansion for 1956, will shell out another $500 million for still more plants...
...line workers. This week General Motors announced the results of a poll on its plan for 112,000 salaried employees. Four out of every five eligible workers decided to invest up to 10% of their pay in G.M.'s future, and the corporation started making deductions from paychecks. Ford will bring out a similar plan to help employees buy Ford stock (if and when it is put on sale). Du Pont, which started a stock plan last month, reports that nearly 70,000 (out of 87,000) eligible workers have signed up. But despite their increasing popularity, stock-buying...
Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy (TIME...