Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Piccard popped her head out of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon in which she and her husband had taken off eight hours before from Detroit's Ford Airport. She found herself on a wooded farm near Cadiz, Ohio. The big bag, limp, torn and empty, was dismally draped over a tall elm. In a treetop the Piccards' U. S. flag flapped bravely...
...Piccard flight barely missed coming to an end at the start last week. After months of waiting the balloon got off the field, two hours behind schedule, in sight of 45,000 spectators including two of the three Piccard children and Henry Ford who had brought 150 moppets in busses to witness the spectacle. When the bag seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside...
Playing baccarat at the big table in Deauville in 1929, the flashy little Jew whom everyone calls the Ford of France tossed a 10,000 franc (then $400) chip over his shoulder with the contemptuous remark "Be so kind, Madame, as to take this and stop breathing down the back of my neck...
Instantly a smash hit, the new Citroën is the most conspicuous change of the year on the streets of Paris. But, even so, it has not yet managed to pull M. Citroën out of his deep, dark red. Last week, pale and determined, the Ford of France faced his bankers. They were tired of carrying him, with extension after extension (TIME, March 12). They wanted to foreclose. With a frantic gleam in his dark eyes André Citroën shrilled "Messieurs, on the day I am deprived of control over the business I have built...
...historic French firm of pneumatic tire pioneers, is one of Citroën's largest creditors. With some 30,000,000 francs ($2,000,000) at stake, Michelin decided last week to gamble on the popularity of the new Citroën. Perhaps in another three months the Ford of France will be able to get on his feet. For that period Michelin agreed to guarantee the debts of Citroën, but on a hard condition. To make sure that the slick motorman plays no tricks, Michelin forced M. Citroën to admit into his plants Michelin...