Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traveled in West Africa in 1959-61 on a Ford Foundation fellowship, and in 1964-65 was a visiting professor at the University of Ghana. He has been a research associate in the Center for International Affairs since 1961, and was a lecturer in Government from 1963 until 1967, when he became an assistant professor of Government...
...interviewed me and hence contained many factual errors, for which the interviewer subsequently apologized to me. The story of my Air Force grants in simple. I had begun looking into the role of student movements as a force for social change under grants from the Carnegie and Ford Foundations. The director of the office of Behavioral Research of the Air Force subsequently approached me in my then capacity as Director of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley, together with the Director of the Survey Research Center at Berkeley, with the offer to give the two research centers...
...Motors has this year-as usual-been running away with the frenetic sales race; G.M.'s volume rose 20% in the quarter and profits went up 25%. In a time of rising costs, however, static or slightly declining sales quite often have a disproportionately adverse effect on earnings. Ford suffered a 17% drop in profits on an 8% sales slide. While Chrysler's sales rose 1 %, its profits fell...
...that is known at Wolfsburg as "Type 1" -and to the rest of the world as "the beetle." The builders of the bug are less exultant over another statistic, however. Type 1, first manufactured in 1945, has already exceeded by five years the 19-year production span of Henry Ford's Model T-the Tin Lizzie that old Henry kept on too long, until it nearly carried him to ruin. Demand for the beetle remains strong, but VW fears getting stuck with a museum piece. Its solution: to become a German General Motors, offering a wide variety of models...
Germany's largest exporter is most vulnerable in the U.S., its biggest foreign market. The company shipped a record 570,000 cars there in 1968, but its 51% share of the American market is under direct attack by the Japanese and by Ford's new $1,995 Maverick. In its first two weeks on sale, the Maverick has been selling briskly but somewhat off the pace set by the then-new Mustang in 1964. So far, it has made no appreciable dent in Volkswagen sales, but next year it will be joined by VW-sized cars now being...