Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass production methods such as many automobile makers already have, they have considered going into the business of making "flivver planes." Last week such a flivver plane was sold. It was not made by an automobile manufacturer, but it was powered by a standard mass-produced automobile engine-the Ford...
...claims it is waiting only for the financial aspects of its founding to be settled before going into mass production in a few weeks to fill the 1,000-odd orders for flivver planes it has on hand. Its plane is a conventional lightweight, low-wing monoplane. The Ford motor is set in reverse position so that the propeller is attached where the clutch normally is when the engine is used on an automobile. Ford Motor Co. has no connection with Arrow, sells motors in batches so that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece, including the conversion gear...
...this attitude. Furthermore, while Franklin D. Roosevelt led all the rest on a list of men whose views on finance met with public approval, no banker showed up in the list until it had passed down through Ogden Mills, Senator Glass, Senator Borah, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, William L. Lemke, Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, Norman Thomas...
BACKS: Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, Philip Brooks '39, Clarence E. Boston, Jr. '39, Alfred H. Colwell '38, George S. Ford '37, Francis A. Harding, Jr. '39, George G. Hedblom '37, Malcolm B. McTernen '37, Arthur Oakes, III '38, Ralph L. Pope '38, George F. Roberts '38, Vernon Struck '38, Robert C. Stuart '38, Clifford W. Wilson '39, William J. Watt...
Captain: George S. Ford...