Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, funded by a $25,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, EFA sent students abroad for service work, and sponsored projects in this country. It has also run a non-credit seminar program during the year...
...prospects for the organization now look brighter than they have. More than 150 students will participate in programs connected with EFA this summer, and if the board uses all the money that remains from the Ford grant, as well as $2500 from the Esso Foundation, nearly $6000 will be available to them. This is still considerably less than last year's budget, but some students will finance themselves, and others have been channeled into already existing projects that have money of their...
Winners of the duration awards were Ford Motor Co. Engineering Consultant Frederick J. Hooven, whose tissue-paper "flying wing" stayed airborne for 10.2 seconds, and Missile-Motor Salesman...
...higher costs for the services performed. Other reasons for the drop in sales are uncertainty over Viet Nam, credit restrictions caused by last fall's tight-money crisis and, as far as autos are concerned, customer worries about safety. Last week the safety problem loomed anew for Detroit: Ford announced that it is recalling 217,000 Thunderbirds, Falcons, Fairlanes, Comets, Mustangs and Cougars because of possible flaws in their power brakes or power steering...
...foreign invasion has been held off by high (up to 40%) auto-import tariffs and a stiff capital-investment law that limits foreign ownership to 50% of any new venture and 15% of any existing Japanese firm. Japan is under strong world pressure to ease that law, and Ford is said to be shopping around for permanent residences...