Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeremiah D. M. Ford, Smith Professor of French and Spanish Languages, the ambassador and consul visited President Conant for a few minutes, Harper Woodward, President Conant's secretary, then led the party a personally-conducted tour of Widener Library, the Memorial Chapel, the Indoor Athletic Building, and Lowell House, with especial attention to the H. Nelson Gay collection of books and pamphlets on the Italian Risorgimento in Widener
...Henry Ford has yet to file his balance sheets with certain State officials, only source of Ford figures. But a strong hint of which way the Ford wind blew in 1934 came last week when Ford of Canada reported the first profit since 1930-$1,878,000 as contrasted with a $620,000 loss in 1933, a $5,200,000 loss in 1932. Bigger in assets ($56,000,000) and in sales (48,900 units last year) than many an independent U. S. motor company, Ford of Canada is supposed to be about 50% owned by Henry Ford. Lately...
With Henry Ford so near, Ford of Canada's President Wallace R. Campbell might as well be right in the Dearborn offices. But the other leading representative of Ford abroad lives and works in reasonable independence. Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, the precise, erect, hard-driving chairman of Ford of England, is really Mr. Ford's General European Manager. On his board sit men like the Baron Illingworth of Denton, P. C., and Sir John Thomas Davies, K. C. B., C. V. O., but Sir Percival takes his orders from Dearborn, where rests Ford of England...
...Ford of England used to own 60% of the stock in each of the Continental Ford companies, the other 40% having been offered to citizens of the respective countries of incorporation. In the last year, however, the parent company is understood to have sold all its holdings in Ford of Germany and some stock in Ford of France. Losses realized on these sales are reported to account for the fact that Ford of England's profits of about $2,400,000 last year were lower than in 1933. But Sir Percival's territory remains all of Europe...
...great plant at Dagenham, Ford of England makes a Ford all its own-a smallish 8-h. p. car designed to circumvent high British automobile taxes. Ford of England used to buy its standard size models from Ford of Canada, lately has begun to turn out British-made...