Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago, an astute Jewish criminal lawyer offered Miss Inescort a job on his staff. Another episode of the tour: at Detroit, though he did not appear at a performance. Henry Ford mended the Inescort watch...
...sent to be kidnaped so as to enable a detective, trailing him, to find another kid kidnaped by the same gang, has the right flavor in spite of its slow movement and the extraordinary stupidity of the criminals. Hero Bennett, 12, uses to advantage certain metallic mots by Harriet Ford and the late Harvey O'Higgins. "You win the ten thousand dollars reward. What will you do with it?" . . . "I'll count it." Best shot: the kidnapers in Grand Central Station, Manhattan...
Shortly afterward Hero Lindbergh inaugurated the Mexico City-Brownsville, Tex., air mail route, flying a tri-motor Ford plane. Prior to the Colonel's departure from Mexico City...
Nucleus of Ford French expansion lies in the Ford assembly plant on the outskirts of Paris. This plant is capable of assembling some 15,000 Fords a year-which is about the number of Fords sold in France prior to the scrapping of famed Model T. The introduction of the new Fords held up production, but the new "Henri's" are now ready for the French market. La Journée Industrielle, French industrial magazine, has been beating the tocsin, sounding the alarm, warning French automakers to beware of increased U. S. competition. Inasmuch as total French motor...
Although it has been denied that Ford of France will be a subsidiary of Ford of England, the fact remains that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England, was given charter rights to market Fords throughout Europe (except in Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other...