Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Education. It was mainly designed to upgrade science teaching in U.S. high schools, whose best teachers have long been lured by more money in industry. With NBC affiliates donating the early half-hour on 149 network stations (151 next semester), the $1,112,000 project was financed by the Ford Foundation and hefty grants from industry (Bell Telephone, Standard Oil of California, General Foods, IBM, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Some 250 colleges jumped aboard, signed up 5,000 regular students, who pay an average $45 tuition and get from two to five hours of credit (depending on the college...
...role of Temple Drake, expressly written for her by Faulkner, Ruth Ford is altogether memorable. She flicks out her lines with an invisible riding crop, aristocratic in disdain, febrile in sexuality, empty-eyed at the soul's abyss. Scott McKay plays husband Gowan with just the right blend of weak will and good intention. And Bertice Reading's Nancy is a mixture of smoldering dignity and rock-like faith...
...almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made a $3,700,000 operating profit in 1958's fourth quarter, its first profit in five years. Chevrolet output, still rising, inched ahead of Ford production for the first time, 522,000 to 511,000. But Ford, with sales 40% ahead of the year-ago rate, claimed it still led in sales. The only glum news came from Buick, which got off to a fast start and has already produced far more cars in the first four months...
Some need small, private dining rooms; most lack adequate lighting in their libraries. The Masters probably have special improvements in mind for which their Ford money in insufficient...
Avoiding what he called the rank list syndrome, David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, accepted students for Soc Sci 136 on the basis of the gestalt or totality of the impression made by the much-discussed questionnaire he required...