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Word: forde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue, under the caption "Bungles.". . . You say that the accident was inexcusable. Maybe so-but it was unavoidable, nevertheless, so far as the pilots of both ships were concerned. The thing, perhaps, that is inexcusable is the lack of air traffic control at large air-ports like the Ford Airport. You can figure out for yourself, very easily, that a ship nosed up going at a rate of per-haps 60 miles an hour, has a clear field ahead so far as he can see. But above him, and some distance back of him, could be another ship flying straightaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Recess. Last week the Supreme Court recessed for a fortnight to catch up on its calendar, preparatory to adjournment early in June. During this term (from October) four notable cases have been decided by the court: 1) Great Lakes water diversion; 2) Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contempt of the Senate; 3) New York's 5? Fare; 4) Canadian immigration. Three notable cases pending are: 1) Oilman Sinclair's contempt of court (jury shadowing); 2) St. Louis & O'Fallon railway valuation; 3) presidential pocket vetoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme Matters | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania still has the Lincoln which Henry Ford gave her. Patriotic King Albert has a Belgian Minerva but more often rides a motorcycle (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...financiers for associating with the "notorious" German Dye Trust, harked back to War days in which German chemists had unkindly embarrassed the U. S. dye industry through failure to publish their dye patents and processes, and closed with an unfriendly gibe at the presence of Edsel Ford and Paul Warburg on the same directorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bosch Invasion | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...mesdames J. H. Adamson, R. L. Agassiz, Charles Almy, P. deM, Bailey, S. H. Batchelder, W. C. Bayhes, J. C. Bayley, Everett Bradley F. M. Bud, Godfrey Cabot, David Cheever, Algernon Coolidge, Juiian Coolidge, C. P. Curtis, G. S. Curtis, H. T. Cutler, Bradford Dorr, J. D. M. Ford, Q. M. Fowle, K. Francke, Langdon Frothingham, G. P. Gardiner, P. W. Gentleman, J. H. Gifford, E. P. Goodnow, L. C. Graton, Frederick Haldsworth, G. W. Harrington, H. M. Houser, C. E. lndus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PLANS INNOVATIONS IN PLAY | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

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