Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share. That Insull carried on expansion of his companies at the beginning of the depression in proportion to that of many other large industries--automobile, oil, transportation, etc.--can not be denied. But Mr. Insull's expansion was of an entirely different type. Whereas the Rockefeller, Ford, and Sloan interests were expanding by a normal increase in the demand for their products, Insull Utilities rose in value chiefly by an elaborate system of pyramiding stocks in the organization of new companies and by clever propaganda which created an unwarranted demand for common stock. By an ingenious series of maneuvers...
...exodus as not improbable. They recalled another truckmen's strike in Jersey City, N. J. that closed A. & P.'s warehouse and distributing station. They stayed closed, their activities were transferred to Manhattan. The Hartford family who own A. & P. almost as securely as Henry Ford owns his business, are equally capable of taking drastic action. While the National Labor Relations Board summoned them and the unions to Washington, with a six-point peace plan offered by the Cleveland Regional Labor Board up for discussion, packers were already at work preparing the goods...
...Crimson bases its hopes in this race on the perfect balance of its team. wood, and George Ford has been turning Captain Charlie Woodard, Bob Playfair, Jack Scheu, Arthur Pier, and Hayden Channing form an almost unbeatable combination, any member of whom may lead his team mates to the tape...
...second time Tommy Bilodeau was given a full day at quarter, in both the signal drill and scrimmage lineups. Hitherto George Ford has been Bob Haley's relief at quarter, but it now seems certain that Bilodeau has supplanted Ford as the number two brain truster while Ford has become a leading candidate on the left half squad...
...Both Ford and Bilodeau were on the preferred list of prep school stars who came out for Cliff Gallagher's Freshman outfit a year ago, but this season neither has been able to find himself as well as was hoped, and this double switch of positions may prove the solution to their troubles--especially since an understudy for Haley must be found...