Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit, two fliers arose from sickbeds to join in the rescue: Floyd Bennett and Bernt Balchen. At 5 o'clock of a morning they set out in a giant Ford trimotored liner. At Lake Ste. Agnes, Bennett had a fever of 102, could go no further. He was rushed to Quebec, deathly ill of pneumonia. Commander Richard Byrd came to his side; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made an inspired flight to bring him succor (see MEDICINE, p. 22). Canada suddenly contained a noble percentage of the world's greatest fliers, for by now Clarence D. Chamberlin had joined...
Ernest C. Kanzler (whose wife is Edsel Ford's wife's sister), director, the three Guardian organizations; organizer, the Universal Finance...
...discount the promissory notes of Ford motor car buyers, as General Motors Acceptance Corp. has discounted billions of dollars of G. M. C.-made cars, Detroit bankers were busy last week organizing the Universal Finance Co. It will get its chattel money from and through the Guardian Trust Co. of Detroit and its affiliated Guardian Detroit Bank (in Detroit) and Guardian Detroit Co. (security house in Manhattan). Among directors of the Guardian Trust of Detroit are potent motor car makers...
...Edsel Ford, president, Ford...
Died. Howard Ford Thurber, 58, onetime (1919-24) president of the New York Telephone Co. and for 37 years a leader in the telephone industry; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...