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...Edsel Ford, president, Ford...
President Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Co. designed a taxicab, putting on wire wheels, a clock, four doors & an Ustco taximeter; called the whole, logically enough, a "Luxford." Hackmen saw it in Manhattan, ordered 300 the first week, without knowing the price or the delivery date. The Taxi Weekly, house organ of the cab profession, describes the Luxford thus...
...Edsel Ford last week purchased Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Major-General Henry Dearborn from the Enrich Galleries in Manhattan. He had the picture hung in the office of the Ford Motor Co., at Dearborn, Mich, where he works...
...other three are reputedly Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Andrew W. Mellon...
...care a damn. "I don't give a damn," he shouted to the eager U. S. as represented by honest newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this summer in a Ford-Stout plane. Again, that he and Thomas A. Edison were working on rubber raising (he had said this before, but the public forgets). Then he said "we are building a new Diesel engine-burning crude oil instead of gasoline-and we hope...