Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman Senator Wayne Morse arrived in Washington last week with a cross-country eyeview, and an earful of what U.S. citizens are thinking about. Reason: to move his two prize horses (see cut) Senator Morse drove the 3,310 miles from his Oregon ranch in a 1941 Ford, towing a four-wheeled trailer. The trailer contained an ironing board, boxes of jelly & jam, an electric toaster and the horses, "Spice of Life" and "Oreganna Bourbon...
...auto industry, which has the toughest job of all, had its own private incentive for speed. Spry old Henry Ford expected to be turning out new cars within two months after he got the signal. Others could not afford to be too far behind. Most important, U.S. industry probably would not be hampered by any complex system of quotas which would protect established companies at the price of freezing out new companies and competition. At the beginning of the year business was highly suspicious that wartime controls would somehow be kept shackled on them in peace. But at year...
...strictly unofficial news of the meeting was that the committee would recommend and the leagues elect a new commissioner before the 1945 season opens in mid-April. The inner-sanctum dope was that National League President Ford Frick, onetime Colorado College assistant professor of English and longtime sports writer, had the inside track...
Natural, straightforward, usually tragicomical, Author O'Connor's stories present a world that is self-contained-often sadly so. An old Ford is the most up-to-date object in the book; the reader's eyes are directed into the past rather than the future. In one of the stories an old woman attains her lifelong ambition, which is to be buried in the place where she was born. In another, a kindly, drunken father spins his young daughters what seems to be simply a gay, Oriental tale, but which turns suddenly into...
...only fuel on hand was cooking kerosene. Glumly the pilot tanked up, ran his snorting, protesting engine for 30 minutes to warm up, then staggered off into the air, his exhaust stack belching flame and smoke. The home base heard him coming from afar, "like a model-T Ford climbing a hill in reverse." But he wobbled to a safe landing...