Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the Ford voting stock is held by Clara Ford, Mrs. Edsel Ford, her sons Henry, Benson and William, and her daughter, Mrs. Josephine Ford. On the basis of their holdings, the dividends were: $24,358 to Clara Ford, who holds about 3.1% of all the voting stock outstanding; $64,719 to Mrs. Edsel Ford, who holds 8.3%; and $258,879 to her children, who together have...
...boss goes by. The door flies open explosively and a stubby little man in slacks and sport shirt bursts out, waving a handful of papers, spouting orders, and trailing hovering assistants like gulls behind a tug. In moments of repose, behind a blond curved desk that was once Edsel Ford's, Dubinsky squirms with one leg curled beneath him in the traditional tailor's pose, while his snapping brown eyes watch his visitor steadily-calm, curious, appraising. He plucks papers from the litter on his desk with a triumphant instinct that would have done credit to W.C. Fields...
Welcomed by the Detroit Institute of Arts was Mrs. Edsel Ford's $100,000 low relief in stone from her late husband's collection.* It was 15th Century Sculptor Desiderio da Settignano's Profile Portrait of a Young Woman, who managed to look both wistful and stately...
...latest gift in a series of presentations, begun some 20 years ago by Edsel, continued by his widow since his death...
...Manhattan, William Clay Ford, 22, youngest son of the late Automaker Edsel, boarded a ship from England to welcome home Fiancee Martha Firestone, 21, daughter of Rubbermaker Harvey...