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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edwin S. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, will head the Ford Foundation group now investigating the place of the behavioral sciences in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mason Named as Chairman of Committee Surveying Position of Behavioral Sciences | 10/27/1953 | See Source »

Blitz Selling. Most of the old hands were still in good shape; they went after customers and clinched deals with old-fashioned selling. Packard dealers were making door-to-door calls to line up prospects. The Ford Motor Co. put on a nationwide campaign of "blitz sales." In Seattle, Ford Dealer William 0. McKay advertised that he had to sell 131 cars in 48 hours. The inference was that he would make a good deal, and customers nocked to his showrooms. Without benefit of discounts or special deals, McKay easily sold the cars. In Denver, Ford Dealer Richard Whitfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Too Many Cars? | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Q.E.D. In Twin Oaks, Calif., after Mountaineer George Taylor, 90, set the safety blocks and cranked his 1919 model T Ford, the car ran over him, headed down the mountain, caught fire, burned itself to a stop, drew from George a final farewell: "I never did trust those dern things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Jutting Conies. Newsman Barzini studied at Columbia in the 19203. worked for U.S. newspapers in the U.S.. is genuinely friendly toward America. He works with a very wide screen, and his camera cuts from Henry Ford to a Los Angeles lonely hearts club, from Ben Franklin to a skyful of paratroopers, sometimes with bewildering speed. There are the inescapable stock characters: the discontented taxi driver, the sharecropper with a washing machine who wonders whether he is really happy, the Hollywood starlet who drinks too much; and they are all forcibly made to stand for big concepts-fear, or uncertainty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: These Strange Americans | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Indians out rushed the Yardlings 154 to 134, but Joslin and Boots ford shone in passing, completing ten of 19 good for 116 yards. The Crimson got 14 first downs to Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '57 Eleven Rallies To Tie Dartmouth | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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