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Word: dearborn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable group of U. S. industrialists, journalists, chemists and farm experts gathered in Dearborn, Mich, just a year ago to sign a "Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self-Maintenance." This curious document was presented for signature by Francis Patrick Garvan, flag-waving head of the Chemical Foundation, was duly signed in Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chemurgicians | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Ford's reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall to the accompaniment of the Fordson High School band. For publicity purposes the meeting was called "The First Dearborn Conference of Agriculture, Industry and Science." Official sponsor was "The Farm Chemurgic Council." In spite of the dense pall of propaganda that overhung the affair, the assembled Chemurgicians managed to put on record a considerable body of worthwhile information about agriculture-for-industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chemurgicians | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Last week the Chemurgicians assembled for their second Dearborn conference. More than 1,200 representatives turned up for the three-day session, about four times as many as last year. Indeed, the conference had to be transferred from the Dearborn Inn to the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. Next to Henry Ford, the most distinguished guest was Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I am here to learn," said that venerable Mormon leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chemurgicians | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...than 90% of the market, the Big Three (Ford, General Motors and Chrysler) had their slice of the market pared slightly, independents gaining more than the general average. Furthermore, Ford safes fell off 24% from the same period last year. Ford's slump nearly cost the Man of Dearborn second place in the industry, reducing his margin over Chrysler to a bare 6,400 units for the first three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Statistics into Cash | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...onetime Governor of Alaska, entered any objection to their offsprings' activity. Princeton's William Starr Myers, official Historian of the Republican Party, solemnly pronounced the scheme "a very constructive movement." At Columbia the Spectator launched a Bonus campaign. At Chicago undergraduates promptly set up "Fort Dearborn Post No. 1," declared: "We will make the world safe for hypocrisy!" At Vassar an auxiliary called "Association of Gold Star Mothers of Future Veterans" (later changed under public pressure to "Home Fire Division") demanded free transportation to Europe "to view the future burying ground of our dead," a program supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Future Veterans | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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