Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. of Toledo reported 1935 earnings of $8,167,000 compared to $3,161,000 in 1934. Like many another 1935 recovery, the improvement in Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. depended largely on the 1935 boom in the motor industry. Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass make some 90% of U. S. plate glass. They split this lion's share about evenly, 'but Libbey-Owens-Ford is the leader in safety glass production. Safety glass is made by sticking two ordinary sheets of glass together with a plastic binder. When struck, safety glass...
...motor car windshields are now made of safety glass and 21 states compel the use of safety glass in all passenger car windows. Libbey-Owens-Ford makes about 50% of U. S. window glass, but the window business has languished throughout Depression. Even in 1934, however, the company's window trade increased 41% over 1933. Should a real building boom materialize in 1936, what was once Libbey-Owens-Ford's only business will again become a major item...
...Full Salvation Union Church in Dearborn, Mich. Evangelist Benjamin Wright had chosen the text: I will pour out my spirit in the last days and the young men shall prophesy and the young women shall dream dreams. In Revivalist Wright's small, fervently praying congregation sat a grizzled Ford Motor Co. employe named La Verne Tapp, his wife Myrtle, his 17-year-old daughter Shirley. The Tapps had been looking forward to the meeting. Shirley, who was "saved" at 14 by the Full Salvation Union, remarked: "It's going to be a great meeting although the Devil...
Early in Depression when used cars were accumulating rapidly, motormakers made several attempts to retire jallopies from circulation. Henry Ford offered $20 for each & every jallopy delivered at Dearborn. So great was the rush that he had to set up a demolition line functioning in reverse of an assembly line. Before a car was finally dumped into a furnace cupola it was stripped of glass, tires, battery, upholstery, top fabric, copper, brass. Serviceable equipment was sold to Ford employes, the rest used to the last scrap in the meticulous Ford economy. More than 300,000 jallopies were junked before...
...country has lived through it for a very simple reason,--that politics didn't matter anyway. But this, unfortunately, no longer is true, and no better illustration of the fact can be taken than the policies produced during this depression. No doubt can now remain, in spite of Henry Ford's continued insistence, that government policies are important, and that they must become increasingly so in the future...