Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truck co-operatives in 25 states have already pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president of U. S. Grain Corp. Its counsel: Aaron Sapiro, famed co-operative organiser who sued Henry Ford for libel. Its promise to city housewives: Fresher, riper fruit and vegetables by reducing marketing delays from farm to table. Its hope: to borrow from the Federal Farm Board...
Second with 42 votes, ten less than Mr. Young, came Automan Henry Ford. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, onetime coal, iron, aluminum, whiskey tycoon, was third with...
...Henry Ford, sitting in his shirtsleeves on the porch of his Wayside Inn at Sudbury, Mass., heard a crash as three automobiles and a bus collided, burst into flames. He ran to the wreck, helped extract two men, a boy and three other persons badly burned...
...entirely new automobile. It has no chassis. It has no springs. It has a 60-inch wheel base (a little more than half as long as a Model A Ford). If its owner is a tall man he can stand on the ground and look over its top. It weighs 600 lb. It will be shipped in a weatherproof packing case which has a hinged door and will serve as its garage. It will go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It has a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into...
...Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly, and who, by whispers, were soon identified as Thomas Alva Edison himself, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Dr. Lewis Perry, headmaster of Philips Exeter, George Eastman, and Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...