Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep up with the post-World War II demand for new cars. Ford Motor Co. has spent $1.7 billion to expand and modernize plants and equipment. Last week, in a speech before the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association&* at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. President Henry Ford II admitted that even those husky figures had not been enough. Said he: "The booming market for both new and used cars has frankly been something of a surprise, even to us." To keep up with the expanding market, said he. Ford will spend an additional $625 million...
...Washington is currently experiencing a flowering of "rank religiosity," writes John Cogley in the weekly, Commonweal, which he used to edit (he is now with the Ford Foundation). "Religiosity-or the God-bit, as it is called in the more cynical capital circles-has long been a part of our political tradition . . . The people, especially religious people, seem to demand it-and who is to say that there may not be some faint ring of sincerity as the politico's little coins of godliness are dropped? [But] the new God-bit is more serious. It is the identification...
...Presumptuous liberals," according to leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals, are out to break down the barriers between Protestant denominations. The Rev. George L. Ford, executive director of the ultraconservative N.A.E., told the organization's convention in Chicago that unless it is stopped, "the liberal ecumenical movement will usurp the rights of the churches." The ecumenical movement, he said, favors such things as "downtown worship centers which would not only take the place of regular Protestant churches, but would be headquarters for Catholics and Jews as well." Cried N.A.E. President Henry H. Savage: "The only statement of faith...
...hour film is the complete version of Murrow's "See It Now" program, on which J. Robert Oppenheimer discusses the government's security program and the goals of the Institute of Advanced Study. The free movie was obtained by the Brattle Theatre from the Ford Foundation...
...student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and two Radcliffe graduate students have received Ford Foundation Fellowships for study in the Behavioral Sciences. In addition, one Radcliffe senior has won a Marshall Scholarship for study at the University of London...