Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Using dwarf grain genes imported from Japan, Rockefeller researchers developed a group of short, sturdy, thick-stalked "Mexican" grains so impervious to seasonal light changes that they can produce two or three crops a year.* Following the disastrous 1965-67 drought, Indian farmers, with intensive field aid from the Ford Foundation, planted some 20 million acres of the new Mexican wheat. The results turned out to be astonishing: the 1968 wheat crop topped India's previous record harvest by 35 percent, or 4.3 million tons...
Tensions between blacks and Jews have simmered under the surface for years, but they broke into the open with the recent battle over the decentralization project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district. Financed in part by the Ford Foundation, the experiment gave a community-elected neighborhood board and its Negro administrator, Rhody McCoy, a measure of local control over policies in the area's eight schools. The project was opposed by the predominantly Jewish United Federation of Teachers, which feared that decentralization, if applied to the entire system, would destroy the union's bargaining power...
...turn on an oil valve, 22 toolsetters from a rival union recently stalked out of Britain's Girling company, a large manufacturer of brakes. That started a disastrous chain reaction. For lack of brakes, automobile companies had to close several plants and lay off thousands of workers. Ford Motor Co., Ltd., alone lost an esti mated $50 million in sales during the four weeks that the walkout lasted...
...NIGHT before this Fall's Yale game--in which only one black player suited up for Harvard--the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students issued an anxious statement. The Rosovsky Committee, which Dean Ford had appointed last April to look into the role of Afro-American studies here, was winding up its investigations, and reports that had filtered out of the committee were not encouraging...
...misunderstanding of the Rosovsky committee's purpose was an old one. When Ford named the members in April, he merely charged them with "investigating the place" of Afro-American studies in the Harvard curriculum. But members of the newly-formed Ad Hoc Committee said then that they had an informal agreement with Ford that the committee was going to lay the groundwork for an Afro-American department...