Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story went), he sent her $1 with which she bought peanut seed, making a profit on the crop. Afterwards he built a Gothic quadrangle for her school, spending millions. He loved and collected the relics of the old, slow age which he had destroyed. In his Greenfield Village near Dearborn, he lovingly set up Abraham Lincoln's courthouse and the Menlo Park workshop of his hero, Thomas Edison. He filled his museum with stage coaches, buggies, prairie schooners, old furniture, old tools, old junk...
Died. Henry Ford, 83, industrial dynast, Yankee mechanic who made Detroit synonymous with mass production and whose famed Model T gave the U.S. good roads, bad jokes and a new way of life; in Dearborn...
...Francisco's earnest, able Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham made a grateful announcement: "My one objective will be to further the interest of the city I love." The effort of his political enemies to oust him through a recall vote (TIME, July 15) had failed. The city, by a score of 105,742 to 73,673, last week decided it loved its mayor...
...issues was malpractices in hiring longshoremen. Bridges' union wanted to run its own hiring halls. One day in 1936 the president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. accepted a challenge to debate that issue publicly with Bridges. The steamship line president was gregarious, articulate Roger Dearborn Lapham...
...Rise of Roger Lapham. He was born in Manhattan, in 1883. Five of his mother's brothers had gone to sea. One of them, Uncle George Dearborn, had organized American-Hawaiian, and he gave 17-year-old Roger the chance to ride one of the line's new freighters out to Hawaii...