Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months ago, the prodigious Ford Foundation gave $9,161,210 to nine colleges and universities to improve teacher training (TIME. April 6). Last week Ford gave again: $6,317,000 to ten other institutions, all for the sake of seeding the nation with more competent pedagogues than those now available. Last week's beneficiaries: Bucknell University. Central Michigan College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University. University of North Carolina. University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University. Wayne State University. All are hard at work on stepped-up programs following the Ford formula: end trivial, time-consuming "educationist...
Still other industrial groups blew hot and cold in the first half. Among elec tricals, General Electric rose only 1⅞to 80¾ but resurgent Westinghouse climbed 21⅜ to 94½. Among motors, an investor could hardly go wrong (Chrysler up 17⅛, Ford up 24¼)-unless he selected solid General Motors, up only...
...biggest U.S. industrial corporations in 1958 showed some changes in the top ten. Chrysler, which was sixth in 1957, dropped to eleventh; Bethlehem Steel, which was ninth, dropped to twelfth. Newcomers: Texaco and Western Electric. The top ten: G.M. ($9.5 billion in sales), Jersey Standard ($7.5 billion), Ford ($4.1 billion), G.E. ($4.1 billion, and up a notch from '57), U.S. Steel ($3.5 billion, down a notch), Socony Mobil Oil ($2.9 billion), Gulf Oil ($2.8 billion), Swift ($2.6 billion), Texaco ($2.3 billion), Western Electric ($2.2 billion...
...compact cars got around Detroit, competitors of General Motors Corp. have been kicking at the rear engine G.M. will use in its Corvair. Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert announced that Chrysler's small-car offering, the Valiant, would have its engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight to the mark...
...complaints are few and minor. Hiram Sherman, being innately comical, cannot as Ford quite convey "the finest mad devil of jealousy that ever governed frenzy"; perhaps it would have been wiser for him to exchange roles with Patrick Hines (Page). Ford is also too half-hearted in his cudgeling of Falstaff disguised as a witch; Falstaff ought to be beaten "grievously." Falstaff, in recounting his indignities, misses the point by interjecting, "a man of my kidney"; the sense demands, "a man of my kidney." Finally, the closing explanations of the triple elopement seem sudden and confusing because the portions containing...