Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difference to Hays if he happened to disagree with a client's views: the heart of the matter, he always insisted, was whether or not an individual's liberties had been damaged. Lawyer Hays was able to defend Harry Bridges' freedom of action and Henry Ford's freedom of speech with equal fervor...
...FORD: THE TIMES, THE MAN, THE COMPANY, by Allan Nevins, was a long, steady look at the stubborn, imaginative mechanic who stands as a symbol of U.S. industrial daring. Even more, the book was the definitive history of a mighty business in which Ford was not the real businessman...
...Auto production for the week reached 140,627, the highest point for any week in 18 months. Sales matched the production pace, e.g., Ford sold 60% of dealer stocks the first day that new models were displayed; General Motors said that its dealers were selling cars as fast as the factories roll them off the assembly lines...
David's announcement follows by a month the completion of his "Twenty Million Dollar Effort" to stabilize and consolidate the school. The drive was climaxed when the Ford Foundation gave $2,000,000 for expanded teacher training, busines research, and two professorships. The grant put the school on its most solid financial foundation in nearly 25 years and rounded out the Dean's ambitious plans for reorienting the curriculum and school's objective to post-war business conditions. "I think this is a good time for a young and vigorous leader to take over," he said...
...York, Frank Dudley Lawrence, owner of the Portsmouth (Va.) Merri-macs. filed a $250,000 damage suit in Federal Court against Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and 16 major-league teams for violating baseball's territorial protection rule. Although the rule makes no mention of TV, Lawrence insists that televising big-league games in minor-league cities is just as bad as the forbidden practice of bringing the games themselves to town: many minor-league clubs (including the Merrimacs) are going broke because their fans prefer big-league telecasts...