Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Partnership. The fight started when Henry Ford II canceled an oral agreement which his grandfather had made in 1939 to manufacture a tractor for Ferguson according to Ferguson's specifications. Old Henry had been intrigued by the tractor's ingenious hydraulic lift and new method of linking other farm implements to it. Young Henry was appalled at the manufacturing costs. During the seven years of the agreement, the Ford company made 303,501 tractors which Ferguson sold along with farm implements made by others for $313 million, netting Ferguson $4.3 million in 1946 alone. But the Ford company...
Strenghthening of international ties with areas outside Europe and furtherance of a working partnership between youth of the advanced and underdeveloped countries are the aims of the American delegates...
...joint commission to work out a real partnership on research was specifically suggested by Conant as the first step to restoring the cooperation that existed between the two countries during the last...
...great, grey-green, greasy (as Kipling called it) Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees," is sometimes called Africa's Mason-Dixon Line. Reason: it divides "Jim Crow" South Africa from the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, where "white-black partnership" is at least theoretically the rule...
...partnership in the Follies Berg...