Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piston engine by May, and Chevrolet will stop making Wright's piston R-3350. Buick will continue making the Wright jet Sapphire only until present shortages are made up; then it will stop production. After the cutbacks go into effect, the only secondary supplier will be Ford, now tooling up to make Pratt & Whitney's J-57, whose schedules were not cut. However, all of the cutbacks are being made slowly, because, said Talbott. "We're not going to let these plants suddenly go boom and shut them down...
...FORD, which will bring out its new cars in early January, has spent $60 million building new power plants for both the Ford and Mercury. The Ford will be stepped up from 110 h.p. to 125 with an overhead valve V-8 engine; the Mercury will go from 125 h.p. to 150. Ford's major body change is a new front quarter panel which gives a higher fender line, a longer-looking silhouette. Mercury's rear panel is being lengthened to give a similar look of greater length. The Lincoln is little changed, but its easy-steering type...
...Southampton one day last week sailed a cargo of six knocked-down British tractors, bound for India. Their builder, David Brown, 50, Britain's third biggest maker of tractors (after Harry Ferguson and Ford), had stolen a march on competitors. Instead of trying to hurdle India's import barriers on foreign goods, he had signed a deal with Bombay's locally owned Mahindra-Mahindra plant to assemble and sell his machines. After the tractors, Brown dispatched a team of instructor technicians to set up a tractor school in India. Before long, he hopes to have Mahindra-Mahindra...
...environment, too much vocational specialization and lack of a basic philosophy. This is the theme of Robert Maynard Hutchins' new book, The Conflict in Education (Harper; $2), published this week. Educator Hutchins, longtime (1929-51) head of the University of Chicago and now associate director of the Ford Foundation, warns that unless the universities begin preparing students to participate in the "Great Conversation that began with the dawn of history and continues at the present day," the outlook for Western civilization is indeed grim...
Excursion (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBC). The Ford Foundation's new series for youngsters. Guest star: Harry Truman...