Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford to G.E. Until the crisis became so acute, most companies were satisfied with a restricted sort of giving. They financed a few scholarships and professorships, a set of research projects related to their own work. Some feared that to do more would bring howls of protest from stock holders; others wondered frankly about their legal right to give. Gradually, under the prodding of such men as Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Irving S. Olds, Laird Bell and Frank Abrams, U.S. businessmen began to realize that 1) higher education is industry's best hope for talent, and 2) industry...
...past few years, U.S. business has set up a whole series of plans for giving, in 1951 the Ford Motor Co. announced a program that is now not only financing about 70 scholarships a year for the sons and daughters of its employees, but also giving $500 annually to each private college or university the students happen to choose. The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad has given more than $185,000 since 1951 to private colleges along its route. Du Pont, a longtime giver, now pours $2,500 grants into the chemistry departments of 50 different campuses, expects to give...
...promote study of international legal problems, the Ford Foundation gave $4,650,000 to four top U.S. law schools: Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford...
...mail received at both CBS and Princeton has been heavily in Oppenheimer's favor, and Murrow reports that an additional hour-long film of the interview is being prepared for release to colleges. It will be financed by the Fund for the Republic, a division of the Ford Foundation...
CHEVROLET WON the 1954 auto-production race by a hair, but Ford claims the sales lead for the first time since 1935, though final sales figures will not be in until February. Though Chewy made 1,414,286 cars to Ford's 1,394,657, Ford claims that it sold more. In 1953 Chewy outproduced Ford by nearly 20%, yet sold only 17% more cars...