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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each institution which receives part of the new $50,000,000 ford foundation endowment fund must match every Foundation dollar with one, two, or three dollars of its own, depending of the ratio which an advisory committee decides on, a Foundation spokesman announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colleges to Equal Fund for Raising Pay of Faculties | 3/9/1955 | See Source »

...recognition by the University, a number have abandoned all objectionable traits. Anti-Americanism, according to Gunter, is also sparse, since Berliners in general have felt particular gratitude toward the U.S. ever since the 1948 airlift. The University in particular is thankful for continued U.S. financial support, especially from the Ford Foundation...

Author: By Albert HEALEY Jr., | Title: Berlin Envoy | 3/8/1955 | See Source »

...source will relieve the deficit between anticipated expenses and the financial backing already received. The Ford Foundation's fund for the Advancement of education has contributed $150,000 for the experiment and the suburban Boston public schools involved have agreed to pay the trainees $1,350 a semester for their services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money Drive Will Aid New Teacher Plan | 3/8/1955 | See Source »

...auto sales keeping up with the record-breaking auto production? Last week the nation's dealers gave the answer: in the first eight weeks of 1955 they had pushed sales up to almost 1,000,000 cars, about 40% above last year and an alltime peak. Predicted Ford Economist George Hitchings: first-quarter sales will total 1,580,000 cars, 33% better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Car Buyers | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Leading the sales field (with 45%-50% of the market) was General Motors, whose dealers had delivered 454,471 cars by Feb. 20. Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division reported that in one ten-day period of February its dealers sold 8,806 Mercurys, well above any similar period in the division's history. Chrysler sales were running upwards of 70% over last year. To keep up with the increasing demand, Chrysler will expand further. President Lester Lum (Tex) Colbert announced that Chrysler will build an 800,000-sq. ft. automatic-transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind., have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Car Buyers | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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