Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floating platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps in a chain across the Atlantic. In another scheme an airport was built on trestles over the Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series of scenic tableaux representing modern processes of building...
Airplane manufacturers swelled with pride and anticipation, each confident his make would perform most dependably on the long flight to Texas, to California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious...
South. An organization called Byrd Aviation Associates was formed last week to give "moral and material support" to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's expedition to the Antarctic, scheduled for September. Charles Evans Hughes is chairman; Edsel Ford treasurer...
Senator Couzens, an original Ford incorporator, acquired his stock (2,180 shares) for some $40,000, prior to 1908, and sold it for some 30 millions in 1919. When Henry and Edsel Ford sought to buy him out in 1919, the Internal Revenue Bureau calculated that $9,489.34 per share was a fair price. Senator Couzens ultimately obtained $13,444 per share. He paid the U. S. a profits tax on the difference between the Revenue Bureau's fair price estimate and the price he received. That was in 1919 and the business seemed finished...
Left alone in the U. S. was the third stockholder of the Ford Motor Co., President Edsel Ford; reporters could not reach him to ask explanatory questions about the company's annual financial statement published last fortnight, as law requires, in Boston...