Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still smarting from last year, when an oil leak forced him out of the race on the 27th lap, Andretti watched Gurney break his record, cracked: "It's nice to have something to shoot at"-and tramped on the throttle of his 500-h.p. Dean Van Lines Hawk-Ford. Shooting for 170 m.p.h., Mario came enticingly close-169.7 m.p.h.-on the third of four qualifying laps. Too enticingly. "Let me tell you, that fourth was one thrilling lap," he said later. "I lost it in the No. 1 turn, got straightened out in No. 2, then lost it again...
...Ford, on the other hand, actively and openly supports 17 symphony orchestras, among numerous other projects, through a company fund. In Los Angeles, amounts ranging from $25,000 to $1,000,000 have been given to the Music Center and County Museum of Art by such companies as Rexall, Northrop, and Pacific Telephone & Telegraph. The Houston Symphony is supported by oil companies, but the gifts have not been Texas-size. Theater Atlanta, in Atlanta, Ga., does not credit business with its broad-base support, but can count on getting about $150,000 from businessmen...
...Made His Pile." The practice was halted only after Congress passed the 1934 Securities Exchange Act and F.D.R. named Joseph P. Kennedy to head the new Securities and Exchange Commission. Ironically, Kennedy the year before had made $60,800 on Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., one of the last pools. "The President has great confidence in him," noted Harold Ickes' diary. "He has made his pile and knows all the tricks of the trade...
Everyone is familiar with the way the evil practice called "quoting out of context" works. For example, a routine advertisement citing a review of this work might run thus: "WELL-WRITTEN . . . YOU'LL ENJOY . . . EVERY PAGE OF THIS BOOK . . . PUBLISHED WITH A GRANT FROM THE FORD FOUNDATION...
...mind how much you'll enjoy rereading Bartlett's. Every page of this book is padded with the author's insistent belaboring of the obvious. A key quotation is also omitted: the argument he used to get his book published with a grant from the Ford Foundation...