Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experience in OSS even brought people to Harvard. Among them is Franklin L. Ford, one of the six tenured members of the present History Deparement who served in OSS. After six months of signal corps training, Ford was assigned in autumn, 1943, to Langer's division of the Office along with H. Stuart Hughes, another of the six. He worked on political intelligence for about a year and then went to London in the winter. While on a courier mission in North Africa, his plane narrowly escaped destruction when a German aircraft crossed the Mediterranean, attacked, and wounded the gunner...
...Ford Stayed Behind
Sponsored by the Center for International Affairs, the trip will be financed by a grant from the Ford Foundation through the Institute for International Education...
...gainer from the borrowing was Detroit, which has visions of the balmiest spring selling season in years. Ford's advance orders are so big that it will boost April production 20% to 140,000 Fords, biggest April since 1955. And despite labor troubles, Chrysler surprised everyone by announcing that it was "comfortably in the black" in the first quarter...
Only a few years ago, the customer looking for a small economy car had a small choice. This year nearly 70% of the cars in the show-about 400 in all-sell for less than $3,000. For $4,000 (about the price of a Ford Thunderbird), the auto buyer can have anything but a few top models. Everybody is getting into the merchandising act, moving up, down, and all around to tap a foreign-car import market that is expected to top 500,000 units this year. Even England's staid old Daimler, best known for the limousines...