Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Motor Co. last week wheeled out a racy earnings report that was a prime example of the fast snapback scored by many a recession-hit corporation. In the last three months of 1958. Ford earned $111.9 million or $2.05 a share, the second-best fourth quarter in its history (best: 1955). This wiped out the nine-month loss, gave to the company a respectable net for the year of $95.7 million or $1.75 a share...
...rooms displaying samples from Houghton's unmatched theater collection. "Playbills, posters, prints, photographs, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, letters, documents, clippings"--everything pertaining to the theater in any form fills the theater section of the Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast of Africa in 1674 who has now arrived at the astronomical age of 161 years...
...most precious thing for us is to discover what work tastes like," David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, said last night in the second evening lecture in the current series of Career Conferences...
...Ford Foundation money will finance the production, Rinzler disclosed. A musical background has been planned for the production, partially drawn from Sibelius...
David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, will speak on "Observations on Work" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House Dining Hall. The talk is another in the current series of Career Conferences...