Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haphazard stop beside the road. The driver was a woman, suddenly torn with pain. She had been driving alone into town when her time had come. Shaking with terror I jerked the cushioned seats from my car, made a bed for her in the shadow of her Ford, dumbly helped her as best I could. As she met her fate upon that parched and mournful road-blanched, haggard, disheveled and robbed of all beauty, biting her hands and gasping in torment, but brave as she moaned and whispered a pitiful challenge...
...show is what Dallas advertises, but of that sum $12,000,000 is credited to exhibitors (largest: Ford $2,250,000; General Motors $950,000; Chrysler $500,000) and $5,000,000 to concessionaires. Actual amount put into the Fair by the management is somewhat less than $8,000,000, including Federal, state and city contributions. Head of the Exposition corporation is a hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres...
...gates of the Indianapolis Speedway opened at 6 a. m. First customers were two Illinois sisters named Ford who had been camping at the entrance in their sedan for three weeks, selling souvenir photographs of themselves to buyers farther back in the mile-long queue. By 9 o'clock the grandstands were almost full. Inside the oval of the 2 ½-mile brick track, remnants of the crowd of 168,000 wriggled into rows of bleachers on the tops of busses...
EUGENE H. PURDY Washington, D. C. The automobile photographed with Senator Borah was a 1921 Ford...
...around the world, sending his constituents political postcards from such places as Port Said, Singapore, Shanghai, Kobe. In 1932 he had his first major political success when, as a Wet, he waged a timely campaign against wealthy Senator Cameron Morrison. Bob Reynolds had stumped the State in an old Ford for six months, staged a surprising act in many a hillbilly town. Appearing on the platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when...