Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn after helping to found Standard Oil. Her husband was the Pratt who jotted the memorandum which revealed "Andy" Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon) as one of those who were invited by Will Hays to take over some of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair gave to the Harding-Republican deficit...
Three large Ford ships arrived at the mouth of the Tapajoy River in northern Brazil, last week, bearing engineers, physicians, mechanics, and material to develop Motor Man Henry Ford's rubber concessions at Para. The material was admitted without duty...
...planes are Ford all-metal monoplanes, with enclosed cabins seating 12 passengers, plus hand baggage; equipped with three Pratt-Whitney Wasp motors, top speed of 140 m.p.h., cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. The pilots are veterans of the airmail. Safety, comfort, speed are the T. A. T. keynotes...
...rail service between New York and Los Angeles. The founders of the T. A. T. are Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc.; Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp.; Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad; William Benson Mayo, chief engineer of Ford Motor Co.; and other air-minded potentates (TIME...
...Henry Ford, president of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association, advised farmers' wives last week to build attractive roadside markets and sell produce to passing motorists. Speaking of a market of her own, she said: "The bright colors of the vegetables and fruit against the clean white background made it more easy to attract...