Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps in a chain across the Atlantic. In another scheme an airport was built on trestles over the Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series of scenic tableaux representing modern processes of building...
When Henry Ford changed from Model T to Model A, how much did the decease of the T model and the birth pangs of the A model cost him? Many a U. S. motorist has asked himself that question, has found one answer in the fact that 1928 Chevrolet production exceeded 1928 Ford production. Last week, however, a dollars-and-cents answer was provided. From figures filed last week with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations in Boston, it appeared that the new model bill was something more than $72,000,000. For, according to these figures, the Ford profit...
Meanwhile, however, Mr. Ford maintains that he lost no money in changing over from Model T to Model A. According to a story widely circulated in financial circles, Ford-maker Ford, after deciding upon his model change invested heavily in General Motors stock. Inasmuch as the General Motors stock increased in value somewhat in proportion to the stories concerning Ford difficulties with its new models, so Mr. Ford made on General Motors what he lost on his reorganization program. "Shrewd!" said many a Ford-worshipping U. S. citizen, "Henry can't be beat." But closest Ford observers received this...
...Ford Motor Co. does not publish the usual earnings per share statement...
...racehorses of Harry Ford Sin clair, jail-bound oilman, are not to be barred from Maryland race tracks this year. So announced Chairman James A. Latane of the Maryland Racing Commission, last week. For a time last year Maryland barred Sinclair horses "to keep the game clean." Nathan F. Leopold Jr., once of Chicago, from now on of Joliet, Ill., Penitentiary, co-murderer in 1924 of small Robert Franks, is to get all or part or none of the income from a trust fund of $50,000 left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided...