Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heel farm, with a $2,431 mortgage, 203 acres of depleted soil and almost no equipment. He persuaded his three brothers and two sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors' grain. In his first year out of high school, where he had stood fourth in his class, Farmer Bristow cleared $725. In his second...
...South Dakota 36 years ago, young Ernest was a boyhood friend of Merle Anthony Tuve, now a brilliant physicist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. One summer he clerked at night in a hotel, another summer he sold aluminum ware in the farming region, obtained a brand-new Ford by a series of progressive trades starting with a very old Ford. He went to the University of South Dakota, did graduate work at Minnesota and University of Chicago, became an assistant professor at Yale, went to California in 1928. He is married, has two children. He plays a bang...
...assist in its campaign to unionize the Ford Motor Co., the U.A.W. published a small volume entitled The Flivver King; A Story Of Ford-America, announced an edition of 200,000 to sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim...
...automobile in volume of sales last year was Chevrolet. This year Ford, less hamstrung by Labor than was General Motors, regained the lead. This week, with the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before. Last week it was announced that for the first time since 1929 automobiles and parts rate as No. 1 U. S. export. In Detroit, employment approached the 1929 peak. In Manhattan, the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that production of 1937 models had totaled...
Bert Litman '38 tossed the 12 pound shot 48 feet two and a half inches to win first place. With handicaps Bill Carleback '41, Steve Madey '40, and John Flower '40 placed second, third, and fourth. Ed Ford '40 and Chester O'Autremont '41, aided by handicaps tied for first in the pole vault. Oscar Sutermeister 2G and Steve Madey '40 tied for second...