Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-founded reports were finally confirmed. Ford Motor Co. announced last week that it will introduce a small or compact car during the 1960 model year, "barring changes in the market or other circumstances." Thus it became the first of the Big Three to go on record, though crash programs of all the companies for small cars have been an open secret for weeks (TIME...
Actually, Henry Ford II and Chairman Ernest Breech had not intended to say anything about Ford's economy car until it was ready to be marketed, lest it keep people from buying this year's cars. What forced the company's hand was the fact that the Ford Foundation is preparing to sell some 2,000,000 shares of Ford Motor stock. Ford lawyers decided that the registration statement on the sale, required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would have to take note of Ford's plans for the small car. Under...
Although the committee is composed mostly of professors rather than administrative officials, Ford emphasized that the study will not be turned into an attempt by the Faculty to "impose an academically-oriented policy on the admissions office...
Even if an "ideal" composition of the freshman class is decided on, Ford pointed out, a number of "hard realities over which we have no control" might prevent the execution of such plans...
Another question to be considered by the committee is the possible modification of public relations policy. An effort should be made, Ford said, to "present the public with a picture of Harvard that is something other than a center for egg-head genuises...