Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week repaired to celebrate the Readers' 100th anniversary. There McGuffeyites settled down to enjoy a pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio's onetime (1929-31) Governor Myers Cooper: "McGuffey, if living today, would be a conservative!" Said Fred L. Black, speechmaker for absent Henry Ford who collects rare Readers, restored the crumbling log-cabin McGuffey birthplace near Claysville, Pa.: "Abraham Lincoln, William Holmes McGuffey and Thomas Edison are the three Americans Henry Ford reveres most." Said Lieutenant Governor Harold G. Mosier: "Ohio's most useful citizen...
Hale and ebullient in a grey tweed suit and straw hat, Henry Ford stepped briskly into the powerhouse of his huge River Rouge plant one morning last week accompanied by Son Edsel and other princes of his empire. The wiry, old motor manufacturer, who will be 73 next week, stopped to chat with newshawks, glancing fondly and frequently at a newly installed steam turbine generator towering 21 ft. from the floor...
...part of his $37,000,000 expansion and modernization program, Mr. Ford needed more current for welding and melting. His new 110,000-kilowatt generator increases the total plant capacity to 326,000-h. p., makes it the biggest steam-powered generating station in the world.* The machine cost $4,600,000 weighs 2,000,000 lb., operates at a temperature of 900°, a pressure of 1,200 lb. per sq. in. The new generator, proudly delivered by General Electric Co., was not to be put on the line without ceremony. Mr Ford spied GE's Chief Turbine...
After three more spins of the wheel steam hissed from the boiler, and the emblems began to twirl slowly. After that the smile did not vanish from Mr Ford's face except when a photographer dropped his flash bulb, scattering magnesium foil across the immaculate floor...
...Henry Ford bought the little frame building in Dayton, Ohio in which Wilbur and Orville Wright built the world's first successful airplane 33 years ago. Moved piecemeal to Dearborn, Mich., it will be reassembled exactly as it was in 1903 when it housed Wright Cycle...