Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair was often a caller and overnight guest at the White House before the Teapot Dome oil lease was consummated. President Harding said: "Well, I guess there will be hell to pay but these fellows seem to know what they are doing...
Eight years ago motor-maker Henry Ford bought a magazine. Mr. Ford, like many another national figure, wanted an organ which would distribute his own distillate of the world-wide torrent of printed talk about him. The sheet was called The Dearborn Independent. It contained articles of opinion, ethical, political, factual: also Mr. Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which...
Circulation was stimulated by Ford dealers throughout the country; 458,623 copies were sold each week in June, 1926. But soon after Mr. Ford's international apology to the Jews, death was decreed for The Dearborn Independent. Renewal blanks were not mailed with expiring subscriptions. The last copy peeled from its presses will be that...
...many million people saw the first appearance of the new Ford car last week, it is impossible to estimate. In Detroit Henry Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100,000 people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid...
...marked a milestone for the automobile industry. The U. S. has about 20,000,000 motor vehicles operating. Half of them are old Fords, the Model T, which the Ford Motor Co. ceased making six months ago. It has made 15,000,000 of them since 1908. It continues to make parts for Model T, a business worth $10,000,000 yearly to the company...