Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Ford II, speaking in Stockholm on the U.S.S.R.: "We do not want to do business with Russian-dominated countries." He later admitted that the Ford Motor Co. still owns a plant in one of the countries behind the curtain, and intends to liquidate it. He added vaguely: "I forget which country...
...waded into the social problems of his parish and the city, presiding at labor forums, lecturing at Midwestern colleges. Sometimes he unburdened himself of remarks like: ''The lowliest peasant of the Dark Ages had more opportunity for self-expression than the highest-paid employee at the Ford factory." When, in 1928, Niebuhr became an associate professor at Union Theological Seminary, Detroit's automotive tycoons breathed a sigh of relief...
McIntyre of Dartmouth broke Alan Ford's pool record for the 50 yard dash in 23.7 seconds and also turned in a near-record win in the 100 yard freestyle...
...Good for the Country." Near Ford, Kans., 37-year-old Dale Steele, who farms 5,000 acres of wheatland, ruefully counted up what the 90? drop in wheat meant to him. Said he: "I've lost $54,000 in the last few days. That's more money than I was worth in 1940. But I figure it's just a paper loss. We haven't been killed, just wounded...
Ferguson Lands. Harry Ferguson, Inc., which lost its old tractor-making partner, the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, July 21), imported the first 200 tractors from its new supplier, Standard Motor Co. Ltd., of Coventry, England. Standard, which is shipping 100 tractors a day, hopes they will help U.S. sales of its new 72-h.p. automobile (price: "less than $2,000"). The tractors and cars will have many interchangeable parts...