Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich are too rich and the poor are too poor, began a lively poker game before the Committee with Henry Ford's fortune for imaginary blue chips. At stake was the important question of what would become of Ford Motor Co. when Father Henry dies and Son Edsel has to pay record-breaking death taxes...
...business in that State, statisticians compute indicated earnings from changes in surplus and reserves. According to the 1934 statement filed in Boston last week, Ford profits last year were $6,860,000-plus any dividends paid during the year to the two stockholders, Father Henry and Son Edsel. In 1933 the indicated loss was $3,480,000. Apparently Mr. Ford was experiencing the same difficulty with rising costs that has plagued the whole industry since the New Deal. He sold nearly 300,000 more Fords last year than the year before but his profits amounted to only...
...Antarctica; that the entire Antarctic Ice Barrier is not afloat, as was commonly supposed, but is partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica...
Though all the stock of Ford Motor Co. is owned by Father Henry and Son Edsel, there are still numerous ways of investing in the most magical name in motordom. Frenchmen speculate in Ford, Société Anonyme, Germans in Ford Motor Co. A. G., Spaniards in Ford Motor Iberica Dutchmen in N. V. Nederlandsche Ford Automobielfabriek. In the U. S. there are two Ford stocks traded on the New York Curb Exchange-Ford Motor Co. of Canada and Ford. Motor Co., Ltd., the British unit whose ? shares are bought & sold as "depositary certificates...
...Roosevelt has plenty of endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...