Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englewood, N. ]., she loves motoring. To many a church meeting she drives with cautious but considerable speed in her Franklin automobile. Miss Margaret Hodge has the patrician quietude often associated with the aristocracy of her native city, Philadelphia. She, too, drives, but, instead of a Franklin, she steers a Ford, and "not a new-fangled geared Ford." Two years ago she slipped on some ice, broke her hip. It was during her convalescence in a Chestnut Hill hospital that she and Mrs. Bennett wrote their report, Causes of Unrest Among Women of the Church. They first formally uttered...
...David Buick (then 46) was a partner in the Detroit plumbing concern of Buick & Sherwood. At that time, Henry Ford was a machinist. R. E. Olds was making his first experiments with the Oldsmobile. Novel was the theory that a gasoline motor could furnish better transportation power than the horse. But Mr. Buick saw the future of the motor car. He sold his Buick & Sherwood interest...
...himself, ruminates many a U. S. man-in-the-street, dazzled by world-wide Fords, by General Motors balance sheets, by Chrysler skyscrapers. But such envious persons might well harken to the story of David D. Buick. Mr. Buick was in on the automobile ground floor. He was working on his Buick before the old Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. But no millionaire became Mr. Buick. No break got he. He died in Detroit last week, obscure, impoverished. And when he went to his work, he walked...
...only got into the automobile business on the ground floor, what a millionaire I'd be today! If I'd started in like Ford and Dodge, I'd be sailing a yacht around the world right now. Well, they were lucky birds, those guys. They got a break...
Soon dissension developed. The partners could not agree on sales-methods. They began to build stationary engines as a kind of side line to keep themselves in business until their automobile was perfected. While they were arguing, others were acting. Ford had a car at $850. There was a Cadillac at $750 and an Oldsmobile at $650. But the Buick was a good car. It won competitive tests. Trade papers praised it. At last orders began to come in. Sales were rising; profits were in sight. But production costs increased also, made necessary another reorganization, another influx of capital...