Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edsel Ford reported to the President concerning the progress of the Ford industries in commercial aviation, told him of a program to build 100 all-metal, three-motored planes which can carry a ton of freight efficiently and at comparatively low cost (TIME...
...Bigwigs liked the air at White Pine Camp. It made them talk. Most of them came away whooping for Mr. Coolidge as president in 1928. Among the visitors last week were: Edsel Ford, who told the President how he and his father Henry were going to speckle the air with new type planes (see AERONAUTICS). Said young Mr. Ford: "If business conditions continue good I believe there will be a widespread demand by the people for the renomination of the President." Richard Washburn Child, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy, who is firmly convinced that "public opinion will brush...
Henry Ford took up flying 15 months ago. Last week his son, Edsel, called on President Coolidge in the Adirondacks, laden with photographs and sheets of statistics, to report what progress the emperor of the highways had made in his conquest of the air. First of all, Edsel Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost...
...about which it cast a distinct atmosphere-an impression of ne plus ultra. Probably more money was spent in advertising the Lincoln car than was spent on any other conveyance in the world's history, considering its estimated market. But for that campaign, a campaign that made Lincoln, Edsel Ford was responsible...
...Like many another personage, Mrs. Ford seldom permits herself to be photographed. The above, snapped in 1923, is perhaps the clearest idea of her countenance available to the reading public. Commercial picture-dealers declare that they have never obtained pictures of the heirs to the Ford fortune, Edsel's son and daughter, barring one reproduction of a group painted in oils. Doubtless Edsel Ford, and many another father whose eminence draws upon his family the curious eyes of the world, has often said to news photographers something similar to John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s reported remark of last...