Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1930 a blond, square-shouldered young man sat in his Model-T Ford and looked at Scranton, Pa. He saw great black pyramids of coal, busy, puffing locomotives, dismal rows of workers' houses. From Scranton he turned south to Bethlehem where there were steel mills and more locomotives...
Farther south he went, through the Shenandoah Valley where the sun sank scarlet behind the blue hills, through North Carolina with its little towns and their false-front buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look...
Ward, son of a Ford factory worker, an A student in political science who is even more famed as a trackman than footballer, sat calmly in a radio booth, watched his teammates defeat the Southerners...
...Camden the price was down to about 5? exclusive of taxes and motorists were madly storing fuel in tanks, cans, barrels, buckets, bottles. It was estimated that the oil companies were losing 3? to 4? on every gallon sold. Harry Ford Sinclair, who has felt the heavy hand of the Standard companies in his time, remarked: "It's not a price war; it's a war of annihilation...
...toned moral considerations but by the fact that: 1) a large number of the 75,000,000 U. S. citizens who are supposed to read billboard advertising regard hard liquor advertising in church & school communities as something less than a mixed blessing; 2) many a big advertiser like Henry Ford, Howard Heinz or W. K. Kellogg would be profoundly shocked to see his posters hard by one for Golden Wedding rye; 3) poster space is sold in "showings" or fixed units...