Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blithely oblivious to the industry's vast unused capacity, Henry Ford made great headlines last week by announcing that he was about to spend $13,000,000 rounding out his private steel plant. He will nearly double the output of his great River Rouge power plant at a cost of $4,000,000, will install $6,000,000 of new cold and hot rolling mills with all accessories. Ford Motor Co. already has blast and open-hearth furnaces, blooming mills and bar mills but it has never rolled finished steel. When the expansion program is completed, the company will have...
Last week the managing director of the world's largest crude producer was bluntly answered by a U. S. oilman just back from Sir Henri's home territory. Rapped out Harry Ford Sinclair of Consolidated Oil: "What about Europe putting its own house in order? In one country I visited they were selling gas at ... less than it costs to produce. And if you want to know the country, it was Holland...
Today Jewel Tea sells more coffee than anything else but fundamental policies have not changed a whit. Its line has been broadened to include toilet articles, soap, spices, baking powder, rice, other packaged staples. But the Jewel Man in the Jewel Ford truck still makes his fortnightly calls on 800,000 housewives scattered up & down some 1,500 routes. Rural country is avoided because of the time wasted in bumping from one farm to the next. Villages and small cities where houses are close and people neighborly are Jewel's choice territories...
Story of the Congo, Black God is no travelog but an interpretation of the spiritual conflicts that follow the encroachment of white culture on black folk. Here "Civilization" and "Paganism" meet at the ford of a small tributary of the Congo River where an "outpost of progress" is in the making. Not a novel for best-seller lists, Black God should be enjoyed by discriminating readers for its humor, its delicate prose...
...meantime great changes take place at the ford. Two Christian missions, two hospitals, a bank, a hotel, a market square are established. Many blacks are attracted by Baptist Minister Jones's sensational revivals. More turn to the Catholic mission where Father Domenique cultivates his gentle philosophy and his rose garden. Sister Marte, annoyed with Sister Therese, runs away, makes good her escape by sending dour old Ferryman Lardi, asleep on his raft, to death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from...