Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington] . . . at 40 m.p.h. at 10:30 a.m. of the forenoon of Jan. 30, 1936, and another man was similarly driving a Ford westward along the same section, from 17th to 18th, at 30 m.p.h. at 4 p. m. of the afternoon of Aug. 10, 1913. How swiftly are the two cars approaching? The question is obviously meaningless. The two cars are not approaching, nor in any way spatially related, for they...
...Belle Isle near Detroit this week the Detroit Symphony, heeled with $185,000 raised in a maintenance drive, was to begin the first series of free nightly concerts since 1931. Conductor: Victor Kolar of the Ford radio symphony...
...spur the market over its previous high. Westinghouse Electric raised its annual rate ($3 to $4). Young Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. declared a 25? payment, its first in five years, and Texas Pacific Coal & Oil a 25? payment, its first in more than eight years. Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil went on a regular 60? annual basis with promises of extras. U. S. Smelting & Refining raised its periodic payments from...
...past, staying power and present rewards belongs to resourceful President Eugene Francis McDonald Jr. Born 48 years ago in Syracuse, N. Y., he left Syracuse University to work in the Franklin Automobile plant pushing a bastard file through aluminum. Before the War he went to Chicago, there to sell Fords on the installment plan, then sternly disapproved by frugal Henry Ford. After a couple of years in the Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. McDonald drifted around Chicago looking for something to put his money in. In 1920 he heard one of KDKA's broadcasts, liked it, and when he discovered...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox plays the mandolin; Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Edsel Ford's son Henry II, the guitar; William Randolph Hearst used to strum a banjo. Not any of these but 1,500 other adepts of fretted instruments gathered last week in Minneapolis for the 35th annual convention of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo...