He called for President Gerald Ford, if needed, to provide a U. S. Navy " flotilla " to ensure that hundreds of thousands of " friends of the United States " could escape before a Communist regime could be established.

Parent, a Communist and president of UAW Local 195 and Arthur Reaume mayor of Winsor and formerly a Conservative who broke with his party to support UAW workers at Ford in their fight for the Rand Formula.

Foster and James W. Ford, Communist candidates for president and vice-president of the United States of America ( with James W. Ford ) New York: Workers ' Library Publishers 1932

* James W. Ford ( 1893 – 1957 ), African American politician and Communist vice presidential candidate

In 1974 a historic meeting between the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) Leonid Brezhnev and the president of the USA, Gerald Ford, was held in Vladivostok.

Accused of antisocialist activity and expelled from the Communist Party, Ford emigrated to Israel where he lived for the next two years.

The project was funded partially through a grant from the Ford Foundation, which at the time was an active promoter of Alliance for Progress, John F. Kennedy ’ s initiative to sponsor economic and social development in Latin America and counterbalance Communist influence in the region, particularly in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution.

But Henry Ford used the planetary transmission in his Model T and earlier cars and, in 1905, as a precautionary measure, took out a license from the man who claimed to be its inventor.

In 1962 Braudel and Gaston Berger used Ford Foundation money and government funds to create a new independent foundation, the ( FMSH ), which Braudel directed from 1970 until his death.

Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation plots were used for the basis of Blow Out.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

Large displacement Ford V8 engines ( 4. 2 litre, 4. 7 litre and 7 litre ) were used, compared with the Ferrari V12 which displaced 3. 0 litres or 4. 0 litres.

The Lola proposal was chosen, since Lola had used a Ford V8 engine in their mid-engined Lola Mk 6 ( also known as Lola GT ).

Early prototypes were powered by 4. 2 litre ( 255 cu. in ) alloy V8 engines and production models were powered by 4. 7 litre ( 289 cu. in ) engines as used in the Ford Mustang.

The Mk II used the 7. 0 litre ( 427ci ) engine from the Ford Galaxie.

In Europe, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, Jaguar, Opel, Ford, Vauxhall Motors and Volvo are or were common contemporary bases, and in the past even used Rolls-Royce cars were converted, though their cost is generally considered prohibitive.

This engine also continued in use in some export markets using units built at a Ford plant in Brazil, where Land Rovers were built under license and the engine was also used in Ford pick-up trucks built locally.

BMW and Ford had previously retained ownership of the Rover brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which ' Rover ' might be confused in the US 4x4 market ; the Rover brand was originally used under license by MG Rover until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was re-acquired by the then Ford Motor Company owned Land Rover Limited.

For instance, Mazda's Familia platform was used for Ford models like the Laser and Escort, while the Capella architecture found its way into Ford's Telstar sedan and Probe sports models.

Director Francis Ford Coppola convinced Brando to submit to a " make-up " test, in which Brando did his own makeup ( he used cotton balls to simulate the puffed-cheek look ).

In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.

In the late 19th century pioneers such as Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford recognized the limitations of the methods being used in mass production at the time and the subsequent varying quality of output.

The Volvo trademark was shared between Volvo AB, where it is used on heavy vehicles, and the unit of Ford, where it was used on cars.

The most common 60 ° V6s were built by General Motors ( the heavy duty commercial models, as well as a design used in many GM front-wheel-drive cars ) and Ford European subsidiaries ( Essex V6, Cologne V6 and the more recent Duratec V6 ).

McNamara imported a technocratic managerial style to the Bank that he had used as United States Secretary of Defense and President of the Ford Motor Company.

Screen names are also used to create a more marketable name, as in the case of Creighton Tull Chaney, who adopted the pseudonym Lon Chaney, Jr., a reference to his famous father Lon Chaney, Sr. On the converse, Nicolas Cage adopted this stage name instead of his real name, Nicolas Kim Coppola, in order to conceal the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of famous director Francis Ford Coppola.

Marketed as a slightly more upscale competitor to the ubiquitous Ford Model T, it pioneered or made standard many features later taken for granted: all-steel body construction ( the vast majority of cars worldwide still used wood-framing under steel panels, though Stoneleigh and BSA used steel bodies as early as 1911 ); 12-volt electrical system ( 6-volt systems would remain the norm until the 1950s ); 35 horsepower ( versus the Model T's 20 ), and sliding-gear transmission ( the best-selling Model T would retain an antiquated planetary design until its demise in 1927 ).

Many of these trips used motor vehicles ( Ford Model-Ts ) which employed special techniques for driving in desert conditions.

Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies or The Godfather films of Francis Ford Coppola, " " The Shiva Trilogy " by Amish Tripathi.

Directed by John Ford, How Green Was My Valley is one of the films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

While Keanu Reeves and Harrison Ford both had major roles in action science fiction films ( The Matrix and Blade Runner, respectively ), Ford branched out into a number of other action genres, such as action-adventure films.

, the United States domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total over US $ 3. 5 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $ 6 billion, making Ford the third highest grossing U. S. domestic box-office star.

It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932, and died in 1957.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

The type of fedora worn by Ford in the Indiana Jones films

Ford has been in numerous other films, including Heroes ( 1977 ), Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 ), and Hanover Street ( 1979 ).

She appeared in two Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), where she played Sally Ryan, the daughter of Ford's character Jack Ryan.

Weir's first American film was the successful thriller Witness ( 1985 ), the first of two films he made with Harrison Ford, about an Amish boy who sees the murder of an undercover police officer and has to be hidden away in his Amish community to protect him.

He was especially popular with director John Ford, who frequently included McLaglen in his films.

He was captivated by movies from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low budget horror films, such as The Thing from Another World and high budget science fiction like Forbidden Planet and began filming horror shorts on 8 mm film even before entering high school.

The film was something of a departure for Wayne and Ford, who were both known mostly for Westerns and other action-oriented films.

" John Ford — who worked with Wayne on many films ( such as The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance )— was so impressed with Wayne's performance that he is reported to have said, " I didn ’ t know the big son of a bitch could act!

The scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Tibor Takacs ' Deathline, Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box, George Lucas's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Chandrashekhar Narvekar's Hindi film Tezaab, Shukō Murase's anime Ergo Proxy and Peter Sellers ' The Magic Christian.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

In addition to The Bengali Night, films based on, or referring to, his works, include: Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du Sacré ( 1987 ), part of the television series Architecture et Géographie sacrée, by Paul Barbă Neagră ; Domnişoara Christina ( 1996 ), by Viorel Sergovici ; Eu Adam ( 1996 ), by Dan Piţa ; Youth Without Youth ( 2007 ), by Francis Ford Coppola.

Christie starred in two other films released in 1965, first appearing as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O ' Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and ( uncredited ) John Ford.

His father, Robert Downey, Sr., is an actor, writer, producer, cinematographer, and director of underground films, and his mother, Elsie ( née Ford ), is also an actress and appeared in Downey Sr .' s films.