Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford Foundation expects to get more than its money back in loan repayments, interest and stock dividends. Where will that money go? Back into other foundation work...
...took office, McNamara said, "I have been determined on one thing: that the bank can and will act. It will not share in the general paralysis afflicting aid efforts in so many parts of the world." Using an industrial term that harks back to his days as a Ford Whiz Kid, McNamara proposed that the bank increase its "throughput"-the total amount of money that the bank borrows from private lenders or gets from governments and then doles out in loans-to $10 billion in the next five years. Of that sum, large chunks would go to improve education, wipe...
...included in this figure is the batch of 41,850 Econoline vans called back by Ford last week. A worker at the company's Lorain, Ohio, plant hit upon a production shortcut by shoving brake hoses through a spring coil. It saved time and money while it lasted, but the resulting malfunction of the Econoline's front brake may now cost Ford $100,000 to repair...
...latest to make this discovery is one of the biggest contributors of them all: the Ford Foundation. Last week President McGeorge Bundy announced that the foundation, while continuing to give some $200 million a year in outright grants, will for the first time dig into its investment portfolio with the expectation of reaping a return from its high-minded endeavors...
Galamison proposed that the teachers be given "one year fellowships in urban education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education." He said that the Ford Foundation had expressed interest in the idea, but had not promised to pay for the fellowships. Galamison introduced the plan at a meeting of the New York school board, the local board, and the teachers 'union...