Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand fight," predicted Irish Inventor Harry Ferguson four years ago, when he slapped a $251 million antitrust and patent infringement suit against Ford Motor Co., its subsidiary, Dearborn Motors Corp., Henry Ford II and other Ford officials. Ferguson was right; his suit turned out to be the biggest legal battle in the auto industry since 1911, when old Henry Ford himself successfully broke the famed Selden patent...
...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 itself, said young Henry, had lost $25 million on the deal. He decided to set up his own company, Dearborn Motors Corp., to market his own tractors. Ferguson's aides took one look at the new Ford tractor with its hydraulic lift, and filed suit...
Chicago, Illinois, December 27; Secretary: James P. Baxter '41, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago...
Minor Sport H--John H. Hart, New York, N.Y.; Henry C. Horner, Worcester, Mass.; John G. Houser, Cleveland, Ohio; Donald Kennedy, Dearborn, Mich.; James A. Lawson, Foxboro, Mass.; Skiddy M. Lund, Chestnut Hills, Mass.; Edward R. Ritvo, Newton, Mass.; James K. Weaver, Glenwood Springs, Colo.; Timothy J. Wise, New York, N.Y.; James W. Downs, Manager, Cleveland, Ohio...
Next day Little Orvie really began enjoying the fruits of victory. His police chief announced that the three local newspapers and the Detroit News (all of which had opposed Orvie) would be denied Dearborn crime news because they could not be trusted to print the truth. Next day Orvie lifted the ban but turned to the problem of the Springwells Park section of Dearborn, which had voted, 629-77, to throw...