Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Team A lined up as follows: Winter, l.e., Kevorkian, l.t., Gaffney, l.g., Russell, c., Kessler, r.g., Adlis, r.t., Staples, r.e., Boston, q., Roberts, l.h., Ford, r.h., Struck...
...Henry Ford II, son of Edsel Bryant Ford, entered Yale...
...Ford & Future. Republican Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick has been experimenting with soybeans on the Chicago Tribune's farm at Yorkville, Ill., astounded his readers last spring by expressing approval of Democratic Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace when the Department sponsored a laboratory soybean farm at the University of Illinois. The No. 1 U. S. soybean man is Henry Ford. His reason: "If we want the farmer to be our customer, we must find a way to be his customer...
...Henry Ford began investigating the beans in 1930, spent more than $1,000,000 in the next few years growing them, finding out how they could be used. Few months ago the River Rouge works got a $5,000,000 addition in the shape of a soy-bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...
...Said Mr. Ford few months ago: "You will see the time when a good many automobile parts will be grown. The engine, driveshaft and a few other parts will, of course, be of steel. But the rest, including the body, will be made of farm, products...