Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fellowships have been awarded to 83 college graduates studying problems in Asia and the Near and Middle East, the Ford Foundation announced last night. Four University students were among those receiving awards...
...purpose of the Ford program is "to stimulate increased knowledge of certain foreign areas and to help meet the urgent need throughout those critical areas for large numbers of men and women well qualified in business, education, government, agriculture, labor relations and the Professions," according to chairman of the board Gordon Gray...
JOSEPH P. FORD...
...hopes for 1953. In the works are the biggest batch of changes in a decade: new bodies, airconditioning, power steering, power brakes and engines so peppy that every driver can feel like a hot-rodder. By hiring women and bringing back pensioned employees (as the United Auto Workers asked Ford to do last week), automen think they can meet their arms schedules and still turn out 5,000,000 cars in 1953, about the same number as this year...
...fairly poor financial position for some years. Slightly over 7 percent of the students--a far cry from the 25-30 percent ratio at Harvard. Yale, and Princeton--are receiving scholarship funds. Of the $136,000 awarded this year, the bulk of the scholarship money comes from the Ford Foundation, while Nationals and Pulitzers provide other funds...