Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarring the green breast of one of the fields on Motormaker Henry Ford's "Fairlane" estate near Detroit is a 60-foot plowed furrow. Around it Ford workmen have built a fence. Over it they have laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole...
...Henry Ford, as much preoccupied with men on farms as with men in motors, the furrow (plowed by himself) marks a historic event. Last week he issued invitations-to industrialists, farmers, newsmen-to a luncheon at Dearborn Inn to celebrate that historical event. The event in question was his development of a tractor which convinced him that it would revolutionize agriculture...
Last week the new Ford tractor was still a deep Ford secret. The few facts obtainable about it were sufficiently extraordinary...
...workmen will be re-employed to build it in the long disused River Rouge "B" plant (factory for Ford's Wartime Eagle boats...
...will weigh 1,700 pounds and be powered by a four-cylinder Ford engine (of the type first used in the famed Model A) driving all its four wheels...