Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Industrial-minded Henry Ford keeps his 20,200 acres near Savannah hard at work growing cotton, rice and experimental rubber plants for his friend Thomas Edison. The U. S. Department of Agriculture is cooperating to try and develop the sappy seedlings of a U. S. raw rubber industry...
...Miami Beach is the estate of Tire-man Harvey Samuel Firestone, third member of a famed triumvirate. Mr. Firestone went to his estate last week, soon to be visited by the Messrs. Ford and Edison. Surveying Miami's posthurricane repairs and development, he said, with all the pride of a native, "The city looks splendid...
...Sloan's prediction was apparently based on three items: 1) Ford production, which did not get into full swing until the early autumn of 1928, may reach a much higher total in 1929; 2) Chevrolet, now a six-cylinder car, plans a greater push rather than a letdown in 1929; 3) Chrysler looms as a potent rival of General Motors...
...Henry Ford added another generality to his large list.† Said he, in an interview in the January McClure's: "This globe has been inhabited by intelligent people millions of times, and very ancient people, I believe, were highly developed in the arts and sciences. . . . I am sure they had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Historians and geologists, with whom Mr. Ford has not always agreed, did not agree with him in this case...
...fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 24), Mr. Ford said: "No successful boy ever saved any money...