Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annual national Air Tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Start: Detroit, Mich...
...building the plane that the public wants to buy, and that proves we are standing still." No mere disturber, no second-rate competitor disgruntled over his own failures uttered those words last week at Langley Field. Va. It was William Bushnell Stout, vice president (to President Edsel Bryant Ford) of Stout Metal Airplane Co., builders of Ford tri-motor all-metal transports. His listeners. 200 manufacturers and engineers and Government air service officials, were assembled to view the year's accomplishments of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. U. S.-supported research body. Mr. Stout saw hope...
...Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover, Mass, (reputed to have spent $750,000 on American painting of all periods); the Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney collection; the Cranbrook Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Mich, (decorative and sculptural art); Circusman John Ringling; Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale of Manhattan; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Edsel Ford...
...workman, repairing the organ in Edsel Bryant Ford's Detroit home, fumbled, dropped the console cover, smithereened a piece of Persian pottery famed to connoisseurs as the Rhages Bowl, valued...
Henry Ford, who is considering several plans of his own for junking, will not share in the $15,000,000 scheme since Ford Motor Co. does not belong to the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. However, Edsel Ford, president of Lincoln Motors, is participating. A committee whose Chairman is R. H. Grant, famed General Motors sales vice president, is working out details...