Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigilante sense, at least for civil peace.-In Michigan, Governor Murphy, who with consummate patience sat out the General Motors strike early this year, had not been able to give his State peace. Instead Michigan had a Chrysler strike, an uproarious labor holiday in Lansing, a battle at the Ford plant, another at the opening of a steel plant in Monroe. In Illinois, Governor Horner had not prevented a pitched battle at the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. last February, a more deadly battle at Republic Steel's mill in South Chicago on Memorial Day. In Ohio, Governor Davey unsuccessfully tried...
...library-one of the museum's most important adjuncts-with a discreet projection room that will hold just 50 seats. In the basement will be a lecture room to hold more than 500 people. The Museum's board of trustees, which includes Mrs. Rockefeller, Lord Duveen, Edsel Ford, John Hay Whitney and Marshall Field, will meet in the most public board room any of them has ever seen: a penthouse of clear plate glass. To pay for the building, trustees and other friends of the museum contributed some...
...ancestry by a fondness for good food and French poodles. As an additional distinction he is a member of the only firm of mural painters in the U. S.: Bouché, Saalburg & Henry. However, Partners Allen Saalburg (Central Park's Tavern on the Green) and Everett Henry (Ford Building, San Diego Fair) had no part in this prize-winning mural...
...they had missed few contacts in the U. S. Accompanied by two wives, three managers, seven assistants and some 200 pieces of baggage, they had been entertained in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Boston, New York and Washington. They had toured Ford and General Motors plants, the Endicott Johnson shoe factory at Binghamton, N. Y., General Electric's Schenectady plant and the broadcasting studios of Radio City. In conference with U. S. automobile men they were pointedly reminded that a car selling for $730 in the U. S. costs...
...weeks, but this custom has been discontinued for reasons undivulged. Every morning, however, Junior calls for his father at precisely 7:30 a. m. and they march in step to the Coryell Sr. garage, get in one of the two Coryell Packards, the Fierce-Arrow, the Cadillac or the Ford, and drive to work. They have a joint office and gold-plated telephones on the same wire. Whenever one receives a call the other picks up his receiver and listens in. It is a Coryell legend that while either Coryell is away on business a stenographer takes down all telephone...