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...Halabi was also the kid next door. A Syrian immigrant who spent part of his childhood in Damascus, he came to the U.S. in the 1990s to live with his father, a cook, in Dearborn, Mich. At Fordson High School, he was known as a shy, responsible student who distinguished himself by getting into the highly competitive robotics club. By senior year, he had assimilated "as well as anyone" into American teenage culture, says his former robotics coach Steven Scott. After graduating in 1999, al-Halabi enlisted in the Air Force; his defense lawyers say he was a "star performer...
...also came down hard on the neck of an angular Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson. In 1939, Ferguson, who had perfected a hydraulic lift device to keep tractors from turning over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...
...Dear Little Fordson." Nowhere was Europe's changed picture of Ford (and the U.S.) more poignantly illustrated than in Russia. In the '20s, Ford was one of the Soviet Union's first-string heroes. He was considered the great revolutionist in production methods and a drive was on to "Fordize" Russian plants. Workers were exhorted to "Do it the Ford way, it is the best way." His name was better known than Stalin's at the time. Villages held festivals in honor of the Fordson tractor. Wrote Leon Trotsky: "The most popular word among our forward...
...instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...
Shovels, picks, rotary brooms, big trucks and a new Fordson tractor are ready for immediate action. There are tons of sandon hand for this is the snow fighter's most valuable ally. Last year 151 tons of it were used...