Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America has had its Automobile King, Henry Ford; its Oil King, John D. Rockefeller ... its Chewing Gum King, William Wrigley, Jr. ... its Coke King, Henry Clay Frick...
...America could give birth to a man able to do for homebuilding what Henry Ford proved able to do for automobile building, he would find scope for eclipsing Ford in both fame and fortune...
...Henry Ford's course was straight and clear. But General Motors' price-upping seemed to conflict momentarily with the views of one of its own high priests of industrial economics. Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, had declared in his book The New Capitalism published scarcely two months ago: "High prices, particularly if they are out of balance, tend to destroy the interchange of goods, and cause a starved flow of goods to consumers. Such prices destroy purchasing power, dry up demand, create unemployment, and lower the standard of living...
Some ten years ago the company planned to enter the low-priced field but the engineers could not meet the price within the rigid framework of Mr. Franklin's specifications. In Syracuse people say that Herbert Henry Franklin has -as much independence and individuality as Henry Ford...
...dymaxion, invented by Buckminster Fuller '17 and built by Phillip C. Pearson '18, has the appearance of an airplane without wings: it contains a Ford V-8 engine, and is supported by only three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The original dymaxion had a wooden body, and was wrecked in an accident on its maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell...