Word: forded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue Ford and its matching two-ton trailer cruised slowly through Cameron, S.C., past the white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...
Within the hour, a boyish 28-year-old with cropped blondish hair and a ready grin wheeled into the vacant spot near A. O. Rickenbacker's hardware store. He hopped out of the Ford, opened the trailer door, set the coffee pot on the butane stove in the pint-sized kitchen, spread farm literature across his "parlor" table, and rigged a microphone out front. Hugo Sims, youngest man in the U.S. House of Representatives, last week was "at home" to his constituents of Cameron (pop. 624), as he would be in every one of the 150 cities, towns...
Beginning next week, the U.N. General Assembly goes on television with a commercial sponsor: the Ford Motor Co. While the session lasts (probably more than a month), Ford will pick up the tab for 15 hours a week (CBS-TV, 11 a.m.1 p.m., 3-4 p.m. Mon. through Fri.) over a network of 21 stations-the largest time sale in TV history...
After lending Henry Kaiser $34.4 million only a month ago, the RFC last week opened its cash drawer and plunked out another $10 million to its great & good friend. The earlier loan was to help Kaiser-Frazer bring out a low-priced car by next spring to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. The second loan was to permit K-F to finance its dealers' purchases of cars from the factory, because K-F dealers had trouble getting loans from private banks. All told, RFC has loaned K-F almost as much as the company raised in stock sales...
Misty Mourners. In his home state, public opinion on Jesse was often divided, but after he was killed in 1882 by Bob Ford, a reward-seeking member of his gang, many a misty-eyed Missourian mourned him as the last defender of the Confederate cause. Cheers greeted a jury's acquittal of Jesse's Bible-reading brother Frank, who surrendered after Jesse was killed, and "the careers of Governor Crittenden and Prosecutor William Wallace were ruined because of the fight they waged against the Clay County outlaws...