Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taciturn Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson made a deal with a shy, talkative inventor named Henry Ford. They both thought that a Ferguson-designed tractor, which had a hydraulic mechanism to raise and lower a plow automatically, would revolutionize agriculture. It didn't-exactly. But in the process the Ford Motor Co. made 250,000 Ferguson tractors, helped build Harry Ferguson Inc. into one of the biggest U.S. agricultural equipment companies...
Last week young Henry Ford II announced that the seven-year deal was off. Neither Ford nor Ferguson gave a reason for the split. Detroit guessed that money-losing Ford had decided it was not getting enough out of the deal. Ford is setting up a new company to be headed by General Motors Vice President Frank R. Pierce to make its own tractor and a complete line of farm implements...
...ordinary company, such a blow might have been fatal. But Harry Ferguson Inc. is no ordinary company. Thanks to old Henry Ford, its manufacturing setup is probably the most remarkable in the country. Its basic idea is a pet Ford word, decentralization. Ferguson has built up a system of manufacturing 46 farm implements to go with its tractors through 105 subcontracting plants scattered throughout the country, close to their markets. Example: the Towner Manufacturing Co. of Santa Ana, Calif, makes offset disc harrows for orchards, because the biggest orchard market is almost in its back yard...
Accorded second team honorn by the up were guards Emil Drvaric and Nick Rodis, while honorable mentionees were Cloo O'Donnell, captain-elect Vince Moravec, and tackle Ed Davis.. Crimson opposents were also much in evidence, with four Elis, Levi Jackson, Ford Nadhorny, Felix Barzilauskas, and Jack Roderick all on the first team...
...Darling Clementine. Director John Ford's handsome horse opera for the carriage trade, with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME...