Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference was sponsored by the International Association for Cultural Freedom, based in Paris and funded largely by the Ford Foundation. At a cost of about $80,000, the I.A.C.F. gave the incoming Nixon Administration a searching set of speculations about the state of the U.S. today and where it is heading. France's Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, journalist and author of the bestselling The American Challenge, voiced a note of urgency in opening the conference. "America, as the leading industrial power, is the crucial battlefield," he said. "The crisis you are living through we will have to face...
...armed forces just before they are discharged. American Motors uses eight vans to take the training classrooms to the mechanics because, as a company officer says, "the mechanics won't come to us." And Detroit also has plans for a longer-term solution. Within the next two years, Ford, G.M., and American Motors all intend to bring out cars that will be smaller, cheaper, less complex-and, presumably, easier to repair than existing models...
...cars were sold. That was predictably fewer than in the previous month of model introductions, the usual early impulse buying and fleet orders; still the total was 27% higher than in November 1967. This month the automakers are scheduling about 8% more production than in last December. Ford Vice President Matt McLaughlin sums up the expansive mood: "It looks like the question will not be whether we'll break 9,500,000 or even 9,600,000 this year, but whether we can reach...
...Purists may note that this year's total will include about a million imports, way up from 600,000 in 1965, but that scarcely diminishes the cheer at the Detroit Athletic Club. All the automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share is 51.8%, down three points. Chrysler has advanced much in sales and a bit in market...
...close of its regular meeting last night, the HUC also decided to send a letter to Dean Ford asking that students be included in any Faculty committee that might be set up to consider ROTC...