Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move into the old blue-chip favorites by big investors who were sitting on the sidelines waiting for the big board to settle down. Buyers rallied to International Business Machines after President Thomas J. Watson announced a 3-for-2 split and an increased dividend; they bid for Ford after Ford Foundation successfully sold an additional 2,000,000 shares of Ford common without trouble. At the same time, such speculative favorites as General Development and Universal Controls (TIME, March 30) ran into waves of selling, were sporadically held off the market when trading volume on the American Stock Exchange...
...Committee on Educational Policy admissions subcommittee will study the problem posed by the large number of Freshmen who change their minds each year about concentrating in the Natural Sciences, Franklin L. Ford, associate professor of History and chairman of the group, announced yesterday...
...Ford Foundation will give the University $900,000 to aid its programs in international taxation and economic development, the Foundation announced yesterday...
...Ford stated that his committee would consider the drop-off of science concentrators "in connection with other problems rather than specifically by itself." Another committee member, Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr., professor of Biology, added that it was very important for the group to investigate the scientific background of the average applicant in order to determine "where science fits into a liberal education today...
...Concord, Lexington, and Newton projects which this Ford grant subsidizes will have both breadth and depth, Keppel said...