Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always good fun to compute the output of the Ford Motor Co., the centre of U. S. business romance. The Wall Street Journal from time to time publishes some crumbs of Ford information which its agents pick up in Detroit. That is where these statistics of Ford's year production came from, that the paper published last week...
...figures for 1926 are frankly based on the presumption that only 40,000 cars were made in December because the Ford plants worked but ten days during the month. In November the output was only 91,708 cars. However, had November and December production kept to the average of 131,620 cars for each of the first ten months of the year, even then the total would have been merely...
Whether a proper analysis or not, the 1926 situation gives one explanation for the offer the Ford Co. made its dealers last week. For $60 the company will put any 1925 model Ford, no matter what its condition, in first class running order. It will reupholster and repaint such a car, rebuild the motor, and then guarantee the whole job for three months. Thus a dealer can offer high value for a broken down 1925 Ford on a trade-in or he can sell remade cars at bargain prices...
Professor J. D. M. Ford '94 and Mrs. Ford, Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 and Mrs. Grandgent, Professor W. G. Howard '91 and Mrs. Howard, Professor B. S. Turlbut '87 and Mrs. Hurlbut, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lane, Professor J. L. Lowes '03 and Mrs. Lowes, Professor Bliss Perry...
Ever since Henry Ford's Peace Ship sailed to put an end to the war, peace has been the policy of the United States. Nor was this due to pacifism, but the more high-minded citizens were no less earnestly desirous of world harmony, though scrupulous as to the means of procuring it. It was hoped that the last war was truly a "war to end war", and in spite of the regrettable quibblings that caused the League fiasco as far as this country was concerned, the government has avowed its desire for honorable peace. If sometimes impractical...