Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprisingly, the Yankee youngsters are carrying the team. While old reliables such as Lopat and Reynolds have been taking their lumps on the pitching mound, Bob Grim, Eddie Ford, Harry Byrd, Tom Morgan and Jim McDonald have turned in 50 victories among them. Mantle, Noren and Skowron are living up to advance billing and outhitting such veterans as Woodling and Collins. Now, in the stretch sprint, the Yankees will face teams that have been their cousins all season. If they take up their old, winning ways, professional Yankee haters will begin to worry that Casey Stengel will take his sixth...
...million refugees from Communism, made a man think twice before risking his job. The result was bad for all Germans: many German workers cannot afford to buy the goods they produce for export. Only 2% of the 20,000 workers assembling Volkswagen drive to work in cars-unlike Ford and General Motors employees in Detroit, most of whom have cars of their own. The German worker's average monthly wage of 325 marks ($77.50) is far from enough when eggs cost 70? a dozen, good beef...
...spite of the fact that the tax-exempf foundations were denied their day in court, they have nevertheless put up a strong defense against the mishmash of charges made before the Reece committee (TIME, June 21 et seq.). Both the Carnegie and the Ford Foundations have submitted sworn statements. Last week, on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board, President Dean Rusk sent in his. Among the "bizarre innuendoes" he chose to refute...
...Association of Suggestion Systems to promote the idea. Such blue-ribbon firms as Standard Oil (N.J.), National Biscuit. Sears, Roebuck, Internation al Business Machines, John Hancock Life. American Airlines and Westinghouse have elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award (and a promotion) for one selfless civil servant who suggested abolishing his own $12,000 job. Estimated saving to Uncle Sam from such suggestions: $44 million...
...President's Intergovernmental Commission (charged with studying the whole range of federal-state relationships), which he took over when Clarence Manion resigned (TIME, May 3). In between, he has sandwiched time for the many other posts he holds: chairman of the Committee on Economic Development, director of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, director of the Chicago Community Fund and of the Great Books Institute, overseer at Harvard. Says Kestnbaum: "If you'll accept responsibility...