Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schwab into Aviation. Charles Michael Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp. (see p. 12), two years ago met with Orville Wright, Glenn Hammond Curtiss and other flyers, also with Henry Ford, and suggested ways of industrializing aviation. But until last week he did not enter the field himself. His present essay was to become the largest individual stockholder in the General Aero Corp. and to sell it the Atlantic City Motor Speedway, which he controlled, for a passenger airport...
...Historical Village at Dearborn, Mich., last week, Henry Ford and his son and grandsons witnessed the reopening of the school in which Henry Ford studied in 1870. Sitting once more beside Edsel Alexander Ruddiman, his oldtime desk-mate, who is now a learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved his initials on a desktop unreproved by Teacher. Although Mr. Ford is currently engaged in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb, pupils at the old school will, for sentiment's sake, have to read by the light of oil lamps, be warmed by a wood stove, "just like Henry...
...reported that shortly before each of the bombs burst, witnesses had noticed a Ford sedan streaking down midnight streets and highways. Methodical detectives buckled down to the task of checking every Ford in North Germany. In Itzehoe, Prussia, a suspicious Ford was discovered last week...
Thus it is that august Britannica's list of contributors for the 14th Edition includes, besides Tunney, and besides the greatest scholars on scholarly subjects, such arresting names as Lon Chaney, Edward F. Albee, Alice Foote MacDougall; Henry Ford, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, Samuel R. ("Roxy") Rothafel, Lincoln Clark Andrews (U. S. Prohibition Chief, 1925-27), George Jean Nathan, Jesse L. Lasky, George Eastman, etc., etc., etc. (Contributors are discoverable in a list printed with the introduction. Articles are only initialed...
...youth he spent much time with gamblers. A boasted adventurer, he enlisted in the U. S. Army during the War. After his discharge he again became an adventurer. At various times he: ran a New York matrimonial bureau; collected "thousands of dollars" on a Ford car which he repeatedly raffled off but never delivered; was arrested after "illegal actions" during a political campaign; jumped bail and went to Georgia where the store robbery occurred...