Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprisingly outspoken report, a Ford Foundation team last week warned India that it is on a grim arithmetical collision course. Unless a drastic turn is taken, by 1966 the birth rate will have so outstripped food production that literally millions may starve to death in a crisis that "no conceivable program of imports or rationing can meet...
...ripe old age (in many Indian states it is illegal to kill a cow). Since they may not be eaten as food, they contribute little to the Indian food supply, of which they consume a great deal. If they cannot be killed, they might be sterilized, the Ford experts suggest...
...Ford report got respectful attention in New Delhi, but not the hoped-for galvanizing of resolve. Under an acetylene sun, millions of peasants all over India continued to work in loincloths behind' scrawny bullocks, scratching at parched land with tools identical with those of a thousand years ago, struggling against disease and malnutrition, in debt to the moneylender, and blindly unaware of the modern techniques that could change their lives...
Libbey-Owens-Ford...
SHILLELAGH MISSILE, Army's newest-for close-in fighting, like its Irish counterpart-will be developed by Ford Motor Co. subsidiary, Aeronutronic Systems, Inc., under contract worth $23 million. Solid-fuel, surface-to-surface Shillelagh will be operational around...