Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Grant. Der Monat owes its prestige to the State Department's wise decision to give virtually a free hand to its New York-born editor, Melvin J. Lasky, 34. By filling the magazine with the work of the world's leading writers, he has convinced German readers that Der Monat is much more than a mere mouthpiece of U.S. policy. Last week Editor Lasky took the final step to establish the magazine's independence. He severed its official U.S. ties completely, and got a $175,000 Ford Foundation grant to continue publishing, hopes to make...
...onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing out cash, pending the outcome of the drawn-out court fight with the private company. The co-ops wanted the rest of the money. But the private companies objected; they...
...agreed to interconnect the systems at 19 different points. Each would help the other at periods of peak loads, thus lessening breakdowns and power shortages. The cooperatives would abandon plans for 292 miles of lines, use the $3,000,000 saved to increase capacity of the new plant at Ford. With peace in sight, the Government released the remaining $13,299,000 of its loan to the cooperatives so that they could further expand the Ford plant and complete their transmission system...
...Workers in big cities are less likely to want company-sponsored recreational facilities. Moreover, the unions fight for the loyalty of their members, try to incorporate extras into their contracts, and often have their own recreation programs, such as that of Detroit's big U.A.W. Local 600 at Ford...
...Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard Oil of Indiana, fourth; Socony-Vacuum Oil, fifth; Du Pont, eighth; Ford Motor Co., tenth) did not even appear among the first 100 in 1909. Says Kaplan: "Industrial leadership at the big business level is precarious...