Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides Cabinet members, Senators, Representatives, many a businessman has answered the call to the Coolidge Camp during the summer. Among them: Edsel Ford (autos, airplanes), Harvey Firestone Jr. (tires), Patrick E. Crowley (railroads), Julius Rosenwald (mail orders), A. J. Brosseau (trucks). The statements of these and other magnates concerning the undeniable prosperity of the country have received wide publicity because made in connection with a visit to White Pine Camp. Long after the magnates have returned to their less conspicuous affairs, the impression lingers that somehow President Coolidge is Prosperity. Last week, Mr. Coolidge announced that he would not take...
...still dislikes publicity. Last week arrested at Albuquerque, N. M., for cashing a worthless check, he protested in indignation that among his friends were Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Russell Firestone (son of Akron's tireman), Thomas Edison, Governor Smith of New York, Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times...
Senator James Couzens, onetime a partner of Henry Ford, and always a level-headed economist, last December organized a $1,000,000 corporation to manufacture iceless refrigerators. His model was to sell for one-half the present price of such coolers. But the buyer must pay cash...
Drift from Fords. The Ford Motor Co. permits scant publicity for its production figures. Only by inference may these be calculated at the present moment. That is not so difficult. Thus...
...January-June, 1926, U. S. motor car and truck production was 2,449,192. Companies other than the Ford Motor Co. made 1,590,220 cars and trucks. Ergo the Ford Motor Co. made 858,972, or 35.1% of the total. General Motors' production was 26% of the total. Last year the Ford Co. made 42.8% of all (in 1924 51.1%), General Motors, 19.2% (in 1924, 16%). The Ford Co.'s daily production averaged about 5,000 units the first six months of 1926, although the capacity is believed to exceed...