Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscriber to your esteemed magazine TIME, I wish to take exception to the reference to Mr. Henry Ford as the No. 1 U. S. soybean man, as appears in the issue of Oct. 12. I feel that your article and general information on the soybean industry is very accurate and extremely well written and I think that if you make the proper investigation you will find that Mr. A. E. Staley, chairman of the board of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Ill. should be considered by all odds the No. 1 soybean...
...commercial market for the farmers of Illinois. Mr. Staley realized the possibilities in the soybean industry as far back as 1916 and even sent men to China to study the growing and cultivation of the soybean to be produced in this country. I doubt seriously if Mr. Henry Ford knew anything of the industry until years after Mr. Staley had done the pioneer work...
Detroit's Ford may be the most publicized promoter of soybeans, but Reader Mead is right in rating Decatur's Staley as a potent longtime soybean processor. As a North Carolina farm boy, Professor Staley was first shown soybean plants by a returned missionary, never lost interest in the crop thereafter. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., makers of corn products, crushed 5,764 bu. of beans when it opened its bean processing plant in October 1922, crushed 317,202 bu. in March...
...work on double shifts, little U.A.W.. out to organize the Automobile industry by striking at its most vulnerable link, the part's makers, called a "sitdown" of 1,200 men in Detroit's Midland Steel Products Co., which makes frame's for Chrysler and Ford...
...yesterday's election, held in Dillon Field House, all lettermen took part in the voting. Of those, eight cast their ballots for the last time. They are Captain Gaffney, Bob Jones, Charley Kessler, and Mike Adlis, who were Yale game starters, and George Ford, Mal McTernen, George Hedblom, and Bill Watt, who also took a large part in the Eli fray...