Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other casualty was Lewis Francis Ford, a truck driver and lay preacher of the Dolly Pond Church of God in the hamlet of Grasshopper, Tenn. Brother Ford was a new man with snakes; he had handled them only since last July 22. He was bitten before he really started praying. His father explained afterward...
...died, his wife requested snake handling at the funeral. Almost 3,000 people came to watch. The brethren played guitars, cymbals and tambourines and when they got to shouting good, the snake handling began. The Rev. Raymond Hayes of Grasshopper put the serpent that had bitten Brother Ford into the coffin. It coiled up quietly on Brother Ford's chest. In the excitement Brother Hayes was bitten by a rattler, but he paid it no heed and felt all right afterward...
...Received from Henry Ford II (with approval of the OPA) a pearl-grey, four-door Ford sedan, first off the postwar Ford production line...
...Received from a delegation of Arizonans (who want a veterans' hospital located near Phoenix) a so-called ten-gallon cow-puncher's hat, its color matching the Ford...
...There is no longer any secrecy," says Author Sayre, "about the fact that (the P.G.C.) delivered, across Iran, four and a half million long tons of everything a fighting people needs, from arms and food and clothing and medicines to the equipment for an entire Ford plant. The world was amazed by the Red Army's mobility two summers ago .. . . contributing mightily to that mobility were 143,000 American vehicles assembled and delivered by the P.G.C...