Word: ford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retail outlets of Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. (auto parts) were not a "voluntary" chain of stores and therefore fair game for the State's chain-store tax. Right then U. S. motormakers began to anticipate trouble. Last week to General Motors, Colorado sent a bill for $234,655; to Ford went one for $102,470; to Chrysler, Hudson, Studebaker, Nash and Packard went others totaling $193,995. Grand total: $531,120, billed to the seven motormakers for four years' chain-store license fees ($2.50 to $300.50 a store). Grounds: their licensing and supervision of dealers made them members...
...above figures were certified by McKesson's new accountants, S. D. Leidesdorf & Co., and its inventory at the close of ($31,366,635) was checked by Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc. engineers...
Genial, white-haired Rev. George B. Gilbert has lived near Middletown, Conn, for 42 years, never moving his residence more than a mile and a half. An Episcopalian, he calls himself a circuit rider. First with a buggy, then with a Model T Ford, now with a big, seven-passenger Nash, he has cared for an area 100 miles square. Three churches claim him in turn every Sunday, one of them giving him hot coffee to go with his picnic lunch: Emmanuel in Killingworth, Epiphany in Durham, St. James in Haddam...
...Ford Sunday Evening Hour, CBS. Substitute: Ford Summer Hour, on the air since June 11 with light, instead of symphonic, music and, instead of sermons by Ford Spokesman William J. Cameron, chats about River Rouge plant doings by a Rouge reporter (Ken Laub...
This tractor is peculiarly Henry Ford's personal baby. It is his solution of his favorite problem: how to get people back to the farms. More extraordinary than the known facts about it were the claims that Henry Ford, usually far from boastful, made for it last week...