Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among ten baronetcies bestowed last week the only one of note went to famed Motors Tycoon William R. Morris, "England's Ford," maker of the staunch little Morris-Cowley and Morris-Oxford...
...Fiench language, Anglo-Saxons have added the word "beefsteak."* Happenings of last week made it possible that the U. S. branch of the Anglo-Saxon family might also add the word "flivver' For Henry Ford was preparing to drive vigorously for the French market and to compete sharply with Citroen, the popular-priced French car which sells at approximately the same price ($1,000) in the French market as the least expensive of the new Fords...
...seems that the Russian government gained the impression that we wanted a slice of Russia or something like that," said Mr. Ford. "As a matter of fact, we want to help Russia. We want to help all foreign countries...
...Federal Radio Commission last week refused to permit Mr. Ford to build six radio stations for communication with his worldwide plants...
What man, now living, do you admire the most? Lindbergh, and "my father," 25; Andrew W. Melion, 20; Herbert Hoover, 19; Bernard Shaw, 18; Thomas A. Edison, 16; Mussolini, 13; Alfred E. Smith, 9; Henry Ford, 5; Einstein, and "Myself," 4, Richard E. Byrd, and Dwight W. Morrow...