Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Metropolitan Regional Study, financed by grants totaling $600,000 from the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers' Fund, is designed to fore-cast the economic future of the Metropolitan area for use in city planning...
...Rambler American, followed this week by the Rambler Ambassador. For the first time, the 100-in.-wheelbase American will be offered in a four-door model. At a factory list price of $1,720, it will be the lowest-priced four-door car built in the U.S., $83 below Ford's four-door Falcon. The larger Rambler Ambassador also offers a new five-door station wagon, in which the fifth door replaces the tail gate...
...Ford showed off its new Edsel, Mercury and Lincoln lines. The Edsel has been completely redesigned for 1960, has lost the oval hole in the grille. Chrysler's Plymouth hit the showrooms with a new unitized-frame construction for its 24 models, pronounced tail fins, completely new body styling. Among the year's most unusual new models was Willys Motors' new four-cylinder Jeep Surrey, which has a brightly painted body, seats in candy-striped colors that match a vinyl-covered fringed top. The Surrey, priced at $1,650, is aimed chiefly at resort and vacation centers...
...third Ford Hall Forum Program of the season at Jordan Hall in Boston, James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, called Nixon an insincere man "who weaves from the right side of the road to the left and should be arrested for drunken driving." He cited the vicePresident's treatment of the Alger Hiss case and his support for negotiations with the Russians as "an example of his twoheaded politics...
Within its regular operating budget are funds from the Ford, Rockefeller, and other Foundations, but these grants cannot go to building. Keppel said during November and December he will campaign more actively to "interest foundations primarily in contributing to such a building...