Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tractor Deal. Harry Ferguson, Inc. found a new manufacturer for the tractors which Henry Ford II had stopped building for Inventor Ferguson (TIME, July 21). It was Sir John Black's Standard Motor plant at Coventry, England. Standard, already building 250 tractors a day for Ferguson's English company, will build another 250 a day for Harry Ferguson, Inc. to sell in the U.S. They will be powered with Continental motors imported from the U.S. (Ferguson found that would be cheaper than assembling the motor and British frames...
...money to spare, and as often happens under such circumstances, vitality and unpretentiousness get a chance to exert themselves. The result is a nice, brisk, intelligent little B-plus melodrama, far more real and entertaining than the general run. Chief credits go to Players Dennis O'Keefe, Wally Ford and Alfred Ryder (Broadway's blooming June Lockhart is also present), to Writer John C. Higgins and Director Anthony Mann...
Last week, ex-Partner Ferguson played his last card. In New York's Federal Court, he sued Henry Ford II, Dearborn Motors Corp., the Ford Motor Co. and others for $251 million damages. He charged 1) patent infringements, and 2) conspiracy to monopolize the farm tractor and implement business. Ferguson claimed that the Ford Motor Co. had "recognized the validity [of his patents] and placed the statutory patent notice on all tractors manufactured down to June 1947." He wanted to collect triple damages on the 37,000 tractors Ford has made since the split, and other damages for having...
Snapped Young Henry: "The blunt truth about this relationship is that it made Mr. Ferguson a multimillionaire and cost the Ford Motor Co. $25 million in the process." As for patents, the Ford Co. claims Ferguson's had all expired on such features as Dearborn Motors had copied. The rest of Ferguson's "distorted" story would be answered "at the proper time and place," presumably in court...
...poor man's yacht had not quite arrived, Steel-craft's Jack Churchward, 54, was doing his best to make it dawn. Ever since he graduated from Princeton, Jack Churchward has tinkered with welding processes. His inventions made money but his ambition was to become the Henry Ford of pleasure boats...