Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each of these men has been awarded a three year fellowship. In addition, Thomas K. Ford, of Minneapolis, Minn., A. B. University of Minnesota, '33, has been given a special one year fellowship to complete his training for the public service under this plan...
...editor of The Day (Jewish daily), brother of Author Hillel Bernstein (L'Affaire Jones); of heart disease; in Sheffield, Mass. In his The History of a Lie, Herman Bernstein exposed as a forgery the famed "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" (TIME, Nov. 12). He sailed on Henry Ford's peace ship, later sued Mr. Ford for anti-Semitic libels in the Dearborn Independent, got an apology...
...guard of an imaginary enemy and seize strong positions before the enemy's main force arrived. At 6 a. m. one morning the mechanized cavalry moved out, followed by two infantry battalions, followed by engineers in cars which unreeled telephone cable as they ran, followed by Brig. General Ford in a station wagon, followed by the tanks, followed by the 4.400 men (peace strength) of the Division aboard 525 trucks and batteries of 75's rolling along at 30 m.p.h. on balloon tires. An unmotorized division could not have made the required march in less than 24 hours...
...received more spontaneous publicity. The first Austins were in constant danger of being upset by crowds. Smart businessmen sent them cruising the streets to advertise their wares. Funnysheets pictured them slipping under trucks, causing tall men to trip. For a while this publicity had all the advantages of the Ford joke, and orders ran three months ahead of production. But when pranksters took to driving them into ballrooms and down fire escapes, the U. S. public decided that "Baby Austins" were silly, would not be seen in them...
There were other reasons, too, why sales fell off in 1934. An Austin cost almost as much as a Ford or Chevrolet. Over long distances at high speeds it was uncomfortable. It was at a dangerous disadvantage in collisions. Austin was cut out to be a supplementary car, useful in cities or on big estates. Depression wiped out that market...