Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientific end. Ford has transported Edison's old laboratory there, it is also along this line that he has been garnering old machines and tools from every corner of the world. A great deal of his time has been spent, incidentally, in forming a typical New England village right in Dearborn, Michigan. Here, there will be no automobiles allowed; visitors will be transported in carriages; and it will be possible to see typical New England tradesmen at work at all professions...
...destined to zoom over foreign waters. Scandinavians use them as a means of commuting among the fjords and inlets. Many are shipped to Australia. The only practical means of travel in much of the South American tropical zone is the network of jungle waterways. Colombian explorers and the Ford rubber plantations in Brazil use Chris-Craft sedans. While Chris Smith chews and whittles in the Algonac postoffice, his boats are being sold by dealers all over the U. S. and in 20 foreign countries...
Curtiss-Wright Sales Co. gave a flying party last week for air-curious business leaders of the New York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen -rubbermen, pianomen, bankers, food-men, hatters, bakers, milkmen, silkmen- took them up, showed them over Manhattan, brought them down, five tons landing softly...
...Harvard School of City Planning will investigate building heights, residential crowding, and legal aspects of municipal airports according to announcement made yesterday at University Hall. G. B. Ford '99, architect, Robert Whitten, city planning consultant, and F. B. Williams '88, LL.B. '91, have been called upon to carry on these projects...
...Ford who is vice president of the Technical Advisory Corporation will undertake the investigation of the subject "What Zoning Has Done to Limit the Height of Bulk Buildings Especially in Commercial and Apartment Districts, and What Further Limits Should Be Placed on Building Height and Form...