Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competitive coexistence can mean at home. Department stores, once a major market place for appliances, saw some 35% of that business go to discount houses as bargain hunters stalked the land. Competition was so stiff in the auto industry that sales increases were racked up only by G.M. and Ford. Chrysler's cut of the market slumped from 20% to 13%, and mergers cut the number of auto companies from eight to six. But by year's end, Chrysler was scoring a comeback with its new models and all auto companies were producing in high gear. And Ford...
...Midwest stood on the threshold of an industrial renaissance: Cleveland, a new chemical capital, was fast becoming a major auto-producing center with new semi-automatic Ford and Chevrolet factories. Along with Chicago, Detroit and other Great Lakes cities, Cleveland in 1954 could look forward to a new commercial life with the passage of the St. Lawrence Seaway Act. In a few years the new waterway would make them world-trading seaports...
...Ford Foundation has granted $2,050,000 to the Law School for expansion in the field of International Legal Studies, Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, announced last night...
...about that point, partly because the program as presently constituted operates best with a small number of members and partly because of financial limitations. The plan first won financial support from the Conservation Foundation and now operates under funds from Resources for the Future, an affiliate of the falling Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation recently gave the officials of the program considerable cause for rejoicing by agreeing to renew its grant for another three years...
...each other. Valuable techniques of a successful "team" to India were often unavailable for later exchanges, and it was not rare for two or three student groups to converge on New Delhi at once. To bring together organizations with student activities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the Ford Foundation and other groups recently called a conference at the Experiment in International Living, at Putney, Vermont...