Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total auto mar ket. The big question is whether the new company will be big enough to compete successfully against the Big Three. Roaring along at full speed, the giants have pulled even farther ahead of the independ ents this year. General Motors now has 48% of the market, Ford 31%, Chrysler 15%-a total of 94%. Around Detroit last week, the talk is of still another merger eventually. This time auto experts believe it will be between Studebaker-Packard and the newly formed American Motors (Nash and Hudson...
...Executive Branch of the Federal Government." As the hearings went on, a troop of witnesses added other bits and pieces. One denounced the Kinsey reports, which had been partially financed by the Rockefeller Foundation; another blasted Studebaker's Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, former president of the Ford Foundation, for backing UNESCO. Finally, last week, fed up with such charges, supported, he felt, largely by quotations taken out of context, Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne L. Hays decided to teach the committee a lesson as to just how silly its proceedings...
...Johnny Bulla, another young hopeful, headed for the West Coast in Bulk's Ford jalopy. Snead, who had grave misgivings about his own skill, suggested to Bulla that they split their winnings...
...removed from his audience. They invited their man to spend a week on the campus, living and arguing with undergraduates. They picked a lively companion: Robert Maynard Hutchins, brisk but aging (55) boy wonder of U.S. higher education, onetime chancellor of the University of Chicago, now president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic...
...biggest running stories for Southern papers will be the methods used to end segregation in schools, in line with the U.S. Supreme Court decision (TIME, May 24). Last week, to help cover the story, the Ford Foundation announced a grant (about $75,000) to set up the non-profit Southern Education Reporting Service. Staffed by working newsmen, the news service, with headquarters in Nashville, will provide free factual news to editors, public officials, school administrators, etc., describing the shift from segregated to nonsegregated schools. Said Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of the Southern Education Reporting...