Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair:**John Jacob Astor III; Henry Ford, who let school children snapshoot him; Glamorite Brenda Frazier; her onetime cavalier, William Livingston, who dined at another table; Vittorio Cini, Commissioner General of the 1942 Rome Exposition (said he: "Mussolini and Hitler are thinking peace"); Playboy James Donahue, who smashed a photographer's camera when he snapped Cousin Barbara (Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow...
Besides having acquired a considerable reputation as a motormaker and collector of antiques, Henry Ford looms very large in the U. S. "chemurgic" movement, which explores and promotes industrial use of agricultural products. Example: use of casein, a compound which occurs in milk, to make plastics and fabrics. Another of Mr. Ford's preoccupations is soybeans, which can be grown cheaply almost anywhere, yield oil for automobile lacquers, meal for plastic parts like horn buttons. Incidentally, soybeans are nutritious and soybean preparations figure prominently in Mr. Ford's present diet...
Lumbering into the annual stockholders meeting of his substantial ($362,000,000) Consolidated Oil Corp., Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair last week declared: "Either one of two things must happen. The price of finished products must go up or the price of raw material go down. I do not believe that this industry can continue to sell its finished products below the cost of raw materials...
Glenn's father liked it better when the Martins moved to Santa Ana, Calif, and Glenn began making $3,000 to $4,000 a year selling Fords and Maxwells. When Glenn began making gliders in his garage, Father Martin's eyebrows raised. When Glenn rented an abandoned Methodist church, locked the doors, painted the windows and, with a whittled propeller and a Ford Model N motor, began to construct an airplane, his alarmed father thought Glenn had taken leave of his senses...
...impossible to fill, despite the fact that the Freshman team seems to have little to offer. Charley Smith, the Crimson's best sprinter, is only a Sophomore. Lightbody and Joe Donnelly, remain in the 440, and Lightbody and Rolla Compbell in the 880. The mile looks weak. But Ed Ford and possibly Tom Lacey will carry on for Cahners with the javelin, and Bob Partlow has repeatedly shown himself an able high-jumper...