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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help him plan how to lure more young Americans into competitive sports. Among those on the guest list: Golfer Bobby Jones, former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, Army Football Coach Earl Blaik, Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion John B. Kelly (father of Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...discouraging to find . . . that Reuther won from Ford and G.M. the "principle" of the guaranteed annual wage . . . The controlling word is "guaranteed." The auto workers under the new contracts are guaranteed nothing . . . The only "guarantee" is that the companies will pay 5? per hour per worker into a jobless benefit fund. The benefits to the workers vary with the amount of money in the fund. If either company went through two straight years of heavy layoffs, by the end of that time there would probably be no benefits at all. Is that "guaranteed"? . . . The fact is that Reuther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

STOCK-PURCHASE PLANS for salaried employees are being considered by Ford and General Motors. Ford will offer its 46,000 salaried workers stock below market price when it goes on public sale net year. G.M. may make a similar plan part of a new investment and savings program for everybody, from office clerks up to the executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Temporary Short Cut. B.C.M., a 50-year-old office manager, was a case in point. When he entered Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he had drained his bladder through artificial tubes for 27 years, suffered almost constant pain from chronic ulcers of the bladder. This week B.C.M. was ready to leave the hospital with a bladder as new as an infant's, as the result of a remarkable operation that causes the patient to grow a completely new bladder after the old one has been removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Regenerating Bladder | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...three surgeons-Dr. Arthur Waite Bohne, chief of the Department of Urology at Ford, Dr. Paul Jackson Hettle of his staff, and Dr. Robert Wallace Osborn-began experimenting on dogs, succeeded in regenerating completely removed bladders by introducing a plastic mold around which a new bladder could grow. The technique worked so well that they decided to try it on humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Regenerating Bladder | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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