Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain States. Starting points in the game are changes in surplus and reserves. These are also the stopping point because there is no way of telling what charges were made against these accounts or how much was paid in dividends to the two stockholders, Henry Ford and Son Edsel...
...bettering what he is sure is already the world's best low-priced car, Henry Ford has always tended to regard his dealers as a regrettable nuisance. In 1930 Ford dealer discounts were only 17%, far below the profit margin allowed by other motormakers. Then after Son Edsel Ford began to speak up more frequently at company councils, the rate was upped to 20%. Another boost to 22% soon followed. Last week, in the wake of a poor first quarter showing, Ford again hiked its dealer discounts, this time...
...back, one arm encircling another ZaSu-Pittsian female (see cut}. "There is no complicated message in this set," explained Artist Carroll as he put the finishing touches on his first big mural job, financed by a $5,000 gift from Ernest Kanzler & wife, sister of Mrs. Edsel Ford. "I had an idea, and I wanted to fill the spaces beautifully. I felt that people who live their lives among machinery like to escape from machinery, so I strove for a poetic idea and tried to bring to this room a feeling of celestial shapes. I didn't want...
...front porch in 1903 he could hear a gasoline engine sputtering in the backyard of his neighbor, Henry Ford. Hesitantly Lawyer Rackham mortgaged his property, invested $5,000 in the new Ford Motor Co. In 1919, after receiving $4,000,000 in dividends, he sold out to Henry & Edsel Ford for $12,500,000. Taken aback by his fortune, Lawyer Rackham did his best to ignore it, living modestly, carrying on his practice, shunning publicity. His philanthropic career almost ended in a fit of hysteria when the Detroit Community Fund revealed him as the donor of $20,000. Later...
...been clapped into jail for one year and fined $1,000. Running no such risk he took his facts & figures from the annual reports filed by Ford Motor Co. with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations, estimated the company to be worth $600,000,000, 41½% owned by Son Edsel...