Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week a neatly dressed Negro in a natty brown suit parked his old Ford in an alley in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and after glancing furtively around, hurried into a dingy building that had once been a garage Under his arm was a small blackboard wrapped in newspapers; in his pockets were bits of chalk; and awaiting him inside the building were 38 Negro children, sitting silent on wooden benches. Before he turned to them, however, the man first carefully locked the door. He had good reason: his is an illegal school...
...auto industry, production and sales are pushing to new records. For the first six months, Chrysler reported earnings of $70 million, the highest in its history; Ford and G.M. were also pushing ahead. Overall retail sales in June soared to a $15.9 billion monthly rate, $1 billion higher than last year. In July, for the third month in a row, construction posted a record with $3.9 billion worth of new building. After the C.I.O.'s hefty wage increases, overall steel prices jumped 6.3%, a full ½% more than expected, with the chance of another ½% boost this fall when...
...went on to expand on his points: Industry. "Conditions in America are very advanced and none can reach, let alone surpass, the progress in that country," said onetime Marxist U Nu. He cited examples. He had been skeptical that Ford could put a car together in two minutes, but while he watched, Ford workmen put one together in 58 seconds. In Knoxville, Tenn., a waiter in a small hotel told him he owned two cars (one for himself and one for his wife) and earned as much money as the Premier...
...FORD LEADS CHEVROLET in the race for the industry's No. 1 sales spot. Total new car registrations, as compiled by Automotive News for 1955's first five months, plus six states for June: Ford 615,357, Chevrolet...
...patrons of the San Diego Symphony could hardly believe their eyes: 4,000 of their fellow townsmen streamed into Balboa Park's Ford Bowl for the city's largest symphonic turnout in many a season. Then they could hardly believe their ears: the San Diego Symphony played its way through a difficult program of concertos with Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and played beautifully. Critics, customers and Pianist Serkin all agreed: the orchestra had come of age. So had the conductor; at 39, Robert Shaw had made the difficult transition from a brilliant leader of voices to a topnotch director...