Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the President received a delegation of motormakers and finance company executives, including Edsel Ford, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller, Packard's Alvan Macauley, Commercial Credit's A. E. Duncan, Commercial Investment Trust's Henry Ittleson. As in most of his co-operation conferences, the President complained about specific aspects of business, this time the evils of easy installment credit and the irregularity of automobile employment. With these points the callers had no quarrel, departed with high resolves...
...some-thing about wives' fear. A survey revealed that "36% of wives do not want their husbands to fly, primarily because they themselves have never flown; many have never visited an airport; most have never seen a plane newer than 1929's trimotored Ford." California papers carried United's "very special invitation to wives whose husbands like to fly-you are invited to accompany your husband on his next flight between San Francisco and Los Angeles as a guest of United Air Lines."* Last week U. A. L.'s paid travel over the 345-mile airline...
Most interested railroad in the experimental coaches is Santa Fe, which loaned ten miles of sidetrack and ,an engine for the trial runs. To show them to other U. S. roads the designers plan to install two Ford V-8 engines to enable the coaches to cruise about the country under their own power. Delighted with the steadiness of the coaches during tests at 50 m.p.h., Sponsor Hill-whose previous railroad experience consists of three weeks in the Great Northern shops at St. Paul during childhood-pronounced his cars "jounce-less...
...prove his claim, Stuart Chase gives a digest of semantic authorities and then shows how meaningless in the light of their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas...
Robert Gessner, novelist, poet and screen writer, speaker Sunday at Ford Hall Forum, has selected for his topic the title of his widely sold book, "Some of My Best Friends Are Jews...