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Word: ford (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Kettlewell, one of the first men Henry Ford hired when he was preparing to enter commercial automobile production in 1902, later formed a tool, die and pattern business which earned him as much as $500,000 a year before it crashed during Depression I. Now he is a sort of free-lance automobile salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: I Want a Job | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...models had their previews. First to be shown were new Packards, priced $120 to $400 under '39 models. Next day Hudson showed its new line, including a low-priced six, a new, more powerful eight. Nash and Willys-Overland followed. Chrysler will show its new cars next week. Ford, General Motors and Studebaker all expected to show their new lines well before the New York show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: 1940 Models | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...house where the Brothers Wright lived and worked no longer stands in Dayton. Henry Ford carted it away for his collection of Americana at Dearborn, Mich. But on Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Daddy's Day | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Knudsen, president of General Motors Corp. (at $325,000 per year) was definitely uneasy. The man who upped Chevrolet production from 76,000 to 480,000 cars in two seasons (1922-23), then caught and passed Ford, had suffered four full weeks from an ingenious new C. I. O. strike technique. On July 5, when C. I. O. began striking eleven key plants where 1940 models' jigs, dies and tools are built, General Motors had a week's start on Chrysler, which had been set back two weeks by another C. I. O. strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dress Rehearsal | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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