Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contractors to relieve the Post Office Department entirely. He gave bidders 30 days to make their offers for "something like" 85 airplanes, 15 hangars located at fields all across the country, several million dollars' worth of shop equipment. Eyes turned toward the leading U. S. airmail contractors- Henry Ford in Detroit, the Colonial Air Transport Inc. (New England), National Air Transport Inc. (Midwest), Pacific Air Transport Inc.- expecting some joint or combined offer for the transcontinental job and properties...
...which includes on its executive committee shoulder to shoulder, a Y. W. C. A. leader and a Milwaukee banker-philanthropist, a university president and a Chautauqua manager, a Standard Oil executive and a Trades Union League director, the secretary of the American Library Association and the Chairman of the Ford Ball Forum, inadvertently demonstrates the potential usefulness of organized educational cooperation in most striking fashion...
...peregrinations of the theatrical tourists are accomplished by means of three Ford cars and two nondescript run-abouts. Generally these conveyances are in an advanced state of disrepair...
...opened the season at Noroton, Connecticut, on June 22 with Jezebel' and 'Desdemona', two special Ford trucks 'Vivian', a Ford touring car, 'Nemo', a Dodge of questionable antecedents, and Mr. Cheney's Renault runabout, 'Pippett', as our means of transportation. We were kept busy attending to these cars throughout our 11 weeks' hour...
...have toured regularly from Connecticut to Maine and back to New York playing wherever an audience had been located by R. C. Burrell '24, their advance agent. They use a collapsible stage, designed by Mr. Cheney, the owner of the company. This stage is fitted on a specially constructed Ford chassis, and can be unfolded quickly at each stopping place. A very elaborate lighting plant is built on another truck...