Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marseilles is over run with deserters from Spain, French soldiers, Ford cars, prostitutes and Oxford students on their Spring vacation. My hotel window looks out to a bustling alley strewn with garlic shops, clothes lines and fish mongers. This place was recommened as being picturesque: it is all that, even down to the hotel porters, which by the way, are women. I was a bit embarrassed when at the ring of the bell a young girl not much bigger than the size of my bag came up, strapped the luggage on her back and was off three flights of stairs...
Model T In Center City, Minn., went up for auction a virgin 1917 Model T Ford which its late owner Oscar Peterson had driver only 5 9/10 miles, had bought only to avoid further "pestering" from automobile salesmen...
Meantime, the Dearborn individualist last week decided to withdraw further into his vast fortress of independence. The Akron Beacon Journal revealed that Ford Motor Co. had ordered $1,000,000 worth of tire-making machinery for a new Ford tire plant at the River Rouge works outside Detroit. Moreover, said the Beacon Journal, that order was only "one of many...
...Ford officials neither confirmed nor denied the report, but volunteered the pointed observation that Mr. Ford always liked to match outside production with company-made equipment, if for no other reason than to keep a yardstick on costs. Years ago Henry Ford made some of his own tires, discontinuing production when the new River Rouge plant went into operation in 1923. Since then he has bought about half his tires from his good friend Harvey Firestone, the rest from Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber. Henry Ford has made no secret of his alarm over Akron's labor troubles...
Claiming that his great discovery in the British Museum was a manuscript, dated 2137, which revealed the evolution of a world democracy from the present time, Harold J. Laski, Professor of Political Science in the University of London, spoke to a large audience at the Ford Hall Forum last night...