Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Henry Ford went to Manhattan last week to greet Son Edsel Ford, and his family, arriving from Europe on the Berengaria, a bottle of flashlight powder exploded close by the pier, injured nine persons. No Ford was hurt...
...Publisher talked bitterly about "a growing evil" and a "deluge" and the "mushroom-like growth of free publicity." Then it told of a committee formed by the Association to "stem" the evil, forestall the "space-grabbing attempts." Placed in active charge of the committee's work was Andrew Ford, onetime managing editor of the New York Telegram. With a corps of assistants he was to examine and investigate the publicity releases of should-be advertisers, to weed out the real news from the "hand-outs." After weeding, weekly warnings will be sent to all Association members, to all newspaperdom...
Seven Fordson tractors, made in Ireland, last week passed the U. S. Customs duty free. Their free passage resulted from their classification as "agricultural implements." Importance of this decision lay in the fact that Mr. Ford has moved his entire tractor business to Cork, whence it is expected that 100,000 Fordsons a year will eventually be sent to U. S. buyers. The decision also encouraged Ford Internationalism, hastened the time at which the sun will never set on Ford factories...
While Mr. Ford was shipping duty-free Fordsons, General American Tank Car Corp. was employing another standard way of scaling tariff walls. This barrier, however, was not U. S. but German. Reluctant to pay the high duties collected in Germany on U. S. goods, the Tank Car company, á la General Motors, took over a German car company and organized it as a subsidiary...
...State Department, by refusing to sign any more requisitions for liquor importations. The Drys hailed him as a "great good fellow." South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease, prime agitator for Dry embassies in Washington, took off his hat and bowed to him. He was saluted by Henry Ford for his "fine old English spirit...