Word: fordson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Ford's reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall to the accompaniment of the Fordson High School band. For publicity purposes the meeting was called "The First Dearborn Conference of Agriculture, Industry and Science." Official sponsor was "The Farm Chemurgic Council." In spite of the dense pall of propaganda that overhung the affair, the assembled Chemurgicians managed to put on record a considerable body of worthwhile information about agriculture-for-industry...
...tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists assembled for a big charade. Mr. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation, led the enthusiasts into Mr. Ford's reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. There, on a table from Abraham Lincoln's law office and after the Fordson High School band played "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Handel's "Largo," Mr. Garvan solemnly wrote his name at the end of a lengthy Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self-Maintenance...
Signing. Mr. Garvan, dipping a pen with a big spotted feather attached into a 15? bottle of ink, signed. The Fordson High School band played "My Country Tis of Thee." Rev. Hedly G. Stacey of Dearborn pronounced a benediction. And the 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists squiggled their names below Mr. Garvan's. When they all had signed and the Fordson High School band had saluted their gesture with the "New World" symphony, "Coronation Banner" and "The Star Spangled Banner," two expected names were lacking. Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont, after lunching with...
...factory which Mr. Ford will not own is being built to build Fords by the Soviet Government in Russia. The Fordson Tractor factory is at Cork, Ireland. But in Europe proper Mr. Ford owns only sales offices and assembly plants...