Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later he arrived at the offices of Henry Ford. He was then a young man of 30, sandy-haired, straight as a spruce, well-muscled. In the legal department of the Ford Motor Co. were 21 hopeful lawyers. Each of them would have liked the distinction of being chief counsel for one of the greatest businesses in the world. But Lawyer Longley disappointed the hopes of all 21 in exactly two years, and then still further disappointed nine of them by cutting the department's force to twelve...
...lost to Athanase Vagliano and his colleagues of the famed "Greek Syndicate" at Cannes or at Deauville, according to one's means. The Syndicate's game was and is baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano...
...companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight...
...wait a little that guy'll be going pretty soon now and then I gave him the old line about I couldn't afford it. And that's right. I can't, and keep the bus too. Sure I have. Oh, I sold the Ford to Louie before Christmas. And the old man asks me if I want to live at college next year or get another...
...Kraushaar, 4, 10, 13 Emerson D Mr. Miller, 1, 2, 16, 17, 18 New Lect. Hall Mr. Morgan, 3, 6, 9, 11 New Lect. Hall Mr. White, 5, 7, 8, 14 New Lect. Hall Philosophy 6a Emerson F Philosophy 8a Emerson J Philosophy 27c Emerson J Physics B Abdlan-Ford Sever 5 Fox-Kunen Sever 6 Laine-Woodberry Sever 11 Physics 1 Sever 35 Physics 17a Avila-Nichols Sever 23 Nisula-Wright Sever 24 Psychology 24 Emerson J Scandinavian 2 Sever 30 Semitic 8 Sever 29 Social Ethics 10 Emerson A Spanish 4 hf. Sever 30 2 o'clock English...