Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Lake Superior came S. 0. S. signals. Henry Ford's lumber barge Lake Frugality and the steamer Chicago were both driven aground. Their crews clambered off unharmed. Lake Frugality's crew debarked on the mainland, but Chicago's crew of 32, less lucky, found themselves on a desolate island. Faced with starvation, seven of them straggled nine miles through a bramble-clogged swamp to an Indian settlement. The Indians peeled off their ice-caked clothing, gave them food, but stolidly refused to try to reach their derelict companions. Not until four days later, when the seas...
With well-worn evidence Messrs. Owen Josephus Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special U. S. counsel, conducted the prosecution before Justice William Hitz. Only novelty: they managed to introduce the illuminating fact that Fall, in a parallel case, had received some $269,000 in Liberty bonds from Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair who in return received the Teapot Dome lease...
...Ford Tour. Two dozen of the 29 planes which started the 4,800-mi. National Air Reliability Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying...
...other directors: From Harvard at large--C. P. Biddle '20, A. C. Redfield '13; from M. I. T. at large--H.S. Ford, Jasper Whiting; from officers of Harvard--Delmar Leighton '19; from Alumni of Harvard--K. B. Murdock '16; from students of M. I. T.--E. G. Blake '30; from Senior Class of Harvard F. H. Gade '31; from Sophomore Class of Harvard--R. N. Clark...
...standard Ford is a relatively "big car" to Germany with its four-horsepower Opel, to Britain with its 7.8-horsepower Austen, to France with its five-horsepower Peugeot and Citroen...