Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, D. C., a malignant growth was removed, last week, from the throat of Robert D. Ford, Assistant Prohibition Administrator of Baltimore. The growth was believed to have resulted from a piece of grass which Mr. Ford chewed and swallowed, two years...
...Fort Myers, Fla., last week, Motorman Henry Ford talked of a world-wide Ford factory system. Said he: "I am frank to admit that I am an internationalist." He predicted Ford plants in France, in Russia, in Ireland, in South America and in other (unspecified) countries...
Russian plans depend upon the approval of the Soviet Government which, however, has already rejected one Ford proposition...
Another feature of Mr. Edison's birthday was a gesture of generosity by Mr. Ford. At Dearborn, Mich., Ford's factory town, stands the Edison Institute of Technology and the Museum of American Industries, dedicated to Mr. Edison. Mr. Ford last week endowed institute and museum with $5,000,000. The museum contains all Mr. Edison's tools and contrivances, in working order...
...dedication of the Dearborn memorials, Mr. Edison, Mr. Ford and a group approached the buildings to enter. Near the door was a fresh-laid sheet of concrete, around which the party started to walk. But not Mr. Edison. Always he takes the short cut and across the concrete he walked. It was soft. His shoes sank into it. Consternation came upon his face, then stubbornness. He plodded ahead leaving a string of footprints behind. Mr. Ford was delighted and said something flattering about "the sands of time." He gave orders that the footprints be allowed to harden, furthermore, he made...