Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the S. S. Excelsior at Odessa were hoisted two Soviet-made Fords, bound for New York and Dearborn, a gift from the Gorki automobile factory to Henry Ford, a reminder from the Soviet Government that he had sold it his patents...
...week, after four years of Depression deficits, Rolls-Royce hit upon a brand new idea. President John S. Inskip put on display in Manhattan a hybrid 'luxury" car, the Brewster "Cabriolet de Ville," with which he hoped to develop a new market. It had a Brewster body, a Ford chassis, a Ford V-8 engine. Price: $3,500. President Inskip had wangled a contract out of Henry Ford to supply engines and chassis in bulk. At the Springfield, Mass. plant of Brewster & Co. Inc., onetime famed carriage makers, now wholly owned by Rolls-Royce, the chassis were...
...Stanley Steamers were sold. In the main, however, they devoted themselves to storage and repairing of all makes of cars. Among their earliest Harvard customers were Professor Kennedy, Vincent Astor, Robert Goelet, the Cudahy Brothers, Morgan Belmont, Frederick Prince, the Iselens, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either the Cambridge or Somerville assembly plants, rented space for thirty-five cars, and made Mr. William E. Furniss an agent. The following year, the Ford Company decided that they would retail cars through dealers, and accordingly signed up the Harvard...
...high as in 1929, that weekly earnings are 90% as high and living costs only 83% as high, it would advise its members to cut hours from 40 to 36 a week and raise wages to make up the difference. The Chamber includes the whole industry ex cept Ford. While it was in session Ford announced that it would restore its famed $5 per day minimum for all workers. Thus did the entire industry court favor with the Administration by payroll increases. Day after this first move, Senator Wagner's National Labor Board opened strike hearings in Washington...
...Pons, Ponselle and Lawrence Tibbett struggled to get radio auditions but no one in the broadcasting studios had heard of them. The 1934 finale was a jazzed version of Aida with a Ford used instead of horses and all the members of the company kowtowing to Cartoonist Otto Soglow who sat on the throne dressed like his own "Little King." But as the audience jostled out into the night the talk was not so much of the comedy as of the evening's one serious interlude. When Narrator Knight reached the year 1921 the stage was empty save...