Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican, he has given vast aid and comfort to the New Deal in the last three years. Up for renomination in the September primary, Senator Couzens is opposed by Michigan's onetime Governor Wilbur M. Brucker. Refusing to campaign for his seat, the onetime partner of Henry Ford went off for a yacht cruise, remarking: "I don't intend to compete with Brucker. If the people are dissatisfied with my work, I shall be content to stand aside." Back in Detroit last week, rich and radical Senator Couzens seemed to cut his own Republican throat when he declared...
...Steel production, surest measure of basic recovery, touched a six-year high at 72½% of rated capacity, although steel's best customer, automobile production, declined sharply while Ford plants temporarily ceased assembly operations...
...Ford is the star boarder at Columbia. Two full evening hours a week go to the motor company, which is currently paying for time at the rate of some $1,800,000 a year. This season the Ford Symphony Orchestra will grind out time-honored classics on Sunday nights under such conductors as Victor Kolar, Eugene Ormandy, Alexander Smallens, Fritz Reiner. Fred Waring's band and entertainers will go after the young folks in half-hour periods, one on N. B. C., one on C. b. S., at other times in the week. For such talents Henry Ford will...
...careers of some 13 major characters and a host of minor ones, picture such widely separated locales as pre-War Harvard, Wartime Paris, Miami during the Florida boom, Hollywood, Greenwich Village, Detroit. This trilogy also includes 27 brief biographies of such representative public figures as Steinmetz, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford, Sam Insull, Hearst, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, artfully spaced throughout the three volumes. The author provides, in addition, a shorthand autobiography in the form of 51 poetic interludes, called The Camera Eye, which show his own attitude toward the events in which his characters are involved. Like most works...
...mechanic for a time, gets along well with plain men when he sees them as individuals. But pursuit of the Big Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like Taylor, he suffered because he tried to speed up production, to make manufacture efficient, and shrank from the resulting hostility of workmen. Veblen, a lifelong student...