Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long distance from Chicago one Ivan D. Spears, promoter, arranged a rendezvous with Papa Dionne about exhibiting the quintuplets at the Century of Progress. Promoter Spears flew to Orillia, Ont. Papa Dionne motored there with Father Routhier in the Parishhouse Ford. The offer: $100 per week as an option until the quintuplets can be put on show. Thereafter 30% of the gross side show receipts go to the Dionnes, another 7% to Father Routhier. But Dr. Dafoe objected: "They are not going to be moved from here...
...year in prizes. Winning the Indianapolis Classic often means a job with a manufacturer. Tommy Milton, who won in 1921 and 1923, is on Packard's engineering staff. Billy Arnold, who won in 1930, is with Chrysler. Famed Ralph De Palma is doing sales promotion for Ford...
...only way to tell how much money Henry Ford makes or loses is to find the difference between each year's profit & loss surplus on the balance sheet which Ford Motor Co. is required to file annually in certain states where it does business. On that basis of rough calculation, financial writers were able to deduce last week from a statement of condition for 1933 filed with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations, that Ford Motor Co. had finished the year with a $3,923,000 deficit against a deficit of $79,247,000 in 1932. Last year...
...Henry Ford was one of the few motor-makers who kept their prices unchanged when other leading companies were raising theirs last April. Now motormakers were reported to be bitterly regretting their action, and wanting to reduce prices again without losing face. Chevrolet pointed the way by announcing a new model with a few changes and a lower price. Terra-plane followed. Last week the new Chevrolet model was on display at the 61 General Motors' shows throughout the land. General Motors also slashed other Chevrolet prices as much as $50, Pontiac prices...
...faculty will be represented by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor J. D. M. Ford '94. President Conant will be in New Jersey on Saturday, to deliver an address at the Stevens Institute of Technology...