Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual Labor Day races, Commodore Gen. Wood, clamping down the gas-lever of Miss Detroit VII, won the 150-mile international sweepstakes by a two-second margin over Cigarette Jr., of New York. Edsel Ford's boat, 999, burst into flames, sank beneath...
...Edsel Ford: "At 'Ox Hill,' Seal Harbor, Maine, a beautiful new $2,000,000 house is rapidly going up. When completed, it will be my summer home. Perched on one of the highest hills in the locality (a veritable mountain), the building will be made of faced granite hewn from the ledges on the side of the mountain. It affords a full view of the ocean and in the near distance are such places as those of Dr. J. B. Murphy, famed pathologist, and Ernest B. Dane, of Brookline, Mass. These places are noted for their scenic grandeur...
Every nine months or so, a dirigible has to slough its outer skin. Every year the interior gasbags have to be removed. Between renewals both the inner and outer fabric system have to be constantly repaired. The Airship Construction Co. of Detroit, said to be backed by Edsel Ford, is experimenting with a new form of covering and interior cell, to be built entirely of very thin sheet duralumin, not more than one one-hundredth of an inch in thickness...
...Henry Ford and Edsel called on the President with reference to Muscle Shoals. If Mr. Ford should make a contract with the Government for this fertilizer plant, it would eliminate him as a Presidential aspirant...
...cannot hold a contract from the Government and a Government office as well. It is believed, however, that Edsel Ford will sign the contract, if it is made. It is understood that Mr. Coolidge will let Congress decide the question. If the contract were refused to Mr. Ford through the President's intervention, the farmers might demand to know why they were denied Henry Ford and fertilizer. ¶ President Coolidge accepted an offer, made by Mrs. A. B. Calhoun of Atlanta, of a White House dog, an Airedale, half brother of Laddie Boy. ¶ To the National Council...