Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor of French literature at the State University at Utrecht, to be its head. Last week, having just received the first fruits of his recent U.S. tour in the form of a $10,000 donation from the Ford Foundation, Rector Brugmans had reason to feel that the college's mission has become even broader than its name. "Our concept of Europe," says he, "goes as far as liberty goes." Underlying Themes. Today, financed by grants from the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and West German governments, the college has 37 students...
...FORD PROFITS, always a tightly kept secret, will be made public for the first time this year, says Ford Chairman Ernest R. Breech. The move is being made in preparation for the public sale of Ford stock by the Ford Foundation, which holds 3,089,908 shares of non-voting class "A" common stock. The Ford family will still keep firm control of the company through 172,645 shares of class "B" voting stock...
...disabled among its 12,500 workers. Heart cases work at tool design, polio victims as technical writers, amputees operate automatic machines and lathes. The company found that there is not only less malingering and absenteeism, but better production and greater safety consciousness among this group than in any other. Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant in the same city has 600 handicapped workers in its 2,700-man work force. Says Personnel Manager John McKee: "After all, if a job can be done with one arm, why shouldn't an employer hire a man with...
...paid cameramen, contract actors and a horde of stagehands in the slack time. Warner's venture was only the latest. Among the others: ¶Columbia Pictures, facing up to the dollars-and-cents facts of its overhead, decided to grind out this year some 390 TV films, e.g., Ford Theater, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin. The studio makes about $7,000,000 worth of TV films a year (as compared to $80 million for its regular theater releases). ¶ Republic and Monogram, once standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely to TV filmmaking. ¶20th Century...
...Ford grant not only gave $500,000 for construction but an additional $1,500,000 to endow two professorships and expand research in international studies...