Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Europe would be cowering-we ourselves would perhaps be cowering-before the knout held by the Kremlin. The architects of our material growth-the men like Whitney, McCormick, Westinghouse, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hill and Ford-will yet stand forth in their true stature as builders of a strength which civilization found indispensable...
First Royalties. Last week the author of The Little Engine was no longer anonymous. Grosset & Dunlap signed a contract with Mrs. Frances M. Ford of Philadelphia, recognizing her as the author of the tale. The recognition came late: Author Ford is looking forward to celebrating her zooth birthday in March. Grosset & Dunlap will publish a new edition of The Little Engine That Could with Mrs. Ford's name on the cover, and she will receive the first royalties she ever got for her famed story...
Behind last week's contract lay a long struggle on the part of Mrs. Ford's friends to get her recognized as author of a story she dashed off some time between 1910 and 1914, then all but forgot. In 1949 Mrs. Ford's cousin, Mrs. Frank S. Chmiel of Tucson, Ariz., began pestering publishers with the claim that "Cousin Frankie" was The Little Engine's creator. A firm that had always credited the story to an ex-teacher named Mabel Bragg looked back in its records to find that Miss Bragg had never claimed...
Uncle Nat. Author Ford, though appreciative of her cousin's efforts, has always been modest about The Little Engine. She wrote the story while working for a publisher of children's books in Philadelphia, writing advice to parents under the name "Uncle Nat." As she recalls, she wrote the tale in a letter "in answer to some questions about a child who wouldn't try." Years later a friend told her about hearing a wonderful children's story in church. "I just looked at him in amazement," says Cousin Frankie. "It was my Little Engine...
...required only a handful of skilled men, used unskilled workers for the rest, thus kept down costs. The foundry prospered, and Brown made a deal with Harry Ferguson to start making his tractors. But they soon disagreed. In 1939, after Ferguson made a new deal with the late Henry Ford, Brown began making his own tractors. They cost more than Ford's or Ferguson's, but Brown said simply: "If we can't be the cheapest, let's be the best." He laid down the rule that the tractors should be "solid, comfortable...