Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bodies made of laminated sheet steel and soy bean plastic. All the equipment needed to process soy beans at a profit fits into an ordinary barn. At the Century of Progress last year the Ford Co. exhibited a barn so outfitted. A similar example was to be seen at Dearborn last week...
...sign and covenant that chemistry will do this, Dearborn conferees last week pointed to the following actual accomplishments...
...Dearborn, Mich, last week Henry Ford, Irenee du Pont, Francis Patrick Garvan and 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists assembled for a big charade. Mr. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation, led the enthusiasts into Mr. Ford's reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. There, on a table from Abraham Lincoln's law office and after the Fordson High School band played "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Handel's "Largo," Mr. Garvan solemnly wrote his name at the end of a lengthy Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self...
Signing. Mr. Garvan, dipping a pen with a big spotted feather attached into a 15? bottle of ink, signed. The Fordson High School band played "My Country Tis of Thee." Rev. Hedly G. Stacey of Dearborn pronounced a benediction. And the 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists squiggled their names below Mr. Garvan's. When they all had signed and the Fordson High School band had saluted their gesture with the "New World" symphony, "Coronation Banner" and "The Star Spangled Banner," two expected names were lacking. Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont, after lunching with...
Tung Trees, also an importation from China, bear nuts. About 30,000 U. S. acres, chiefly in Florida, are planted to tung trees. B. F. Williamson of Gainesville, Fla., told the Dearborn meeting that an acre of tung trees produces four times as much oil as an acre of flax, and that tung oil is preferable to linseed oil in paints and varnishes. Half of the linseed oil which the U. S. requires is imported. Merely to replace that imported linseed oil would require 3,000,000 acres devoted to flax, or 750,000 acres of tung groves, calculated...