Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the arrest of Arnold Bernstein, Herman Kollmar, the director of his Red Star Line and his executor, has been in amicable contact with Minister President & Economic Director Hermann Goring, seeking a pardon, showing Ford and Studebaker company letters urging clemency. Mr. Kollmar denied rumors that the German Government has taken or plans to take over the Bernstein Line, admitted these rumors have caused many cancellations...
...impenetrable' miles" from Barranquilla to Panama were covered by compass only-true-and he "hacked," "ferried," "pontooned" and carried his Ford (in pieces?) on the very sizable "mule" Lloyd's registered S. S. Venezuela of the Royal Netherlands Steamship...
...there were 1,500 of such independent companies. Today there are only 500 because the business has been more & more dominated by General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co. (Chrysler), Commercial Investment Trust (Nash, Hudson, Auburn, Studebaker), and C. I. T.'s subsidiary, Universal Credit Corp. (Ford). Last year these four handled 75% of all new car financing, 65% of the used car and 80% of the wholesale...
...their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened to, the voyage would have ended very differently. Suspicious of Magellan's behavior,, del Cano and Gonzalo discovered before long that Magellan's real aim was to sail secretly over the Portuguese route to the East Indies, seize a rich island kingdom...
Photographs: of a slant-walled sharecropper's shanty near Rose Bud, Ark., the rusted-away body of a Ford roadster in the foreground: "I remember when that automobile was a mighty pretty thing to ride around...