Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles will retain Times' title, Man of the Year. The Department of Defense will release details of a new manpower plan which abolishes Armed Forces and conscripts all young men to 27 months with General Motors. General Ridgway and the Joint Chiefs of Staff will resign in protest. Henry Ford II, will not be happy about it either...
Deluded Critic. The resentment with which Carroll Reece, once (1946-48) Republican National Chairman and, in 1952, Bob Taft's Southern manager, regards educational and research foundations was apparently stirred up during the 1952 campaign. At that time, men connected with some of the biggest funds, notably the Ford Foundation's Paul Hoffman and Henry Ford II, were active Eisenhower partisans. Reece, who suffers from a delusion that he would have been Secretary of State if Bob Taft had been elected President, is particularly critical of foundation-sponsored research in foreign policy and world trade, most of which...
...genuine hand-hewn American original with the social adze-marks sticking out all over; he is a garage-type inventor with a wild guess in his eye and a hard pinch on his penny, a grassroots genius in the native tradition of Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford...
...orders from the automakers. The nationwide rush to buy new cars was the biggest in years. General Motors' sales for the first ten days of December were higher than any other ten-day sales in the company's history. To keep up with its customers' demands, Ford set a new production record of 6,058 cars a day, and Chrysler Corp. has already received some 450,000 orders. For all automakers the week's production hit 172,249, highest figure in 19 months...
...FORD, which now ranks fifth among the eight big farm-machinery producers, will make a strong bid to become No. 1 by adding more dealers, plant space and products, and by boosting its advertising budget. For 1955, Ford will introduce its first complete line of tractors in 37 years, hopes to jump its share of the farm-machinery market from 19% to 24% within five years...