Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford was given the highest decoration of Rumania, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown for "outstanding achievements in manufacturing." The ceremony took place in Detroit, Andrew Popovich, Secretary of the Rumanian Legation, officiating...
Henry John Sinclair, oiler, came by the Mauretania. Oiler Sinclair, 21, is also 2nd Baron Pentland, grandson of the Marquess of Aberdeen, not to be confused with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. Like Oilman Sinclair, Oiler Sinclair avoids cricket. Unlike Oilman Sinclair, Oiler Sinclair enjoys crossing the Atlantic in the engine room of a liner. Observed Lord Pentland, democratically: "I found the crew ... a fine lot of men." After lavishing $3.95 upon Manhattan gayeties ($3.85 for a theatre ticket, 10? for subway fare), he returned on the Mauretania to Frognal End, Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.3., London, England...
Employment. Latest figures on number of employes are 208,228 (total) for General Motors Corp., 115,837 for the Ford Motor Co. (Detroit only...
Serious-minded visitors, to whom aviation is first an industry, then a fine art, concentrated on the start of the fourth National Air Tour. Twenty-five planes, ranging from two-seater "flivvers" to trimotored, all-metal monoplanes, carefully handicapped for speed and weight, took off from Ford Airport at one-minute intervals, ready to fly 6,300 miles swiftly, safely, reliably...
Airplane manufacturers swelled with pride and anticipation, each confident his make would perform most dependably on the long flight to Texas, to California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious...