Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Ford's "only partner," Irish Inventor Harry Ferguson had done well. Ford produced Ferguson-designed tractors, and Harry Ferguson Inc. sold them, under an unwritten agreement based on "good faith and mutual confidence...
...Harry Ferguson Inc. sold $313 million worth of Ford-built tractors (and implements manufactured by 105 subcontractors), and in 1946 alone netted $4.3 million. It was young Henry Ford II who decided that his grandfather had got the short end of the Ferguson bargain. He canceled the deal, and set up his own Dearborn Motors Corp. to make and sell tractors and implements (TIME, July 21). When the new Ford tractors came out, automen thought they looked much like Ferguson...
Harry Ferguson Inc. tried to make its own tractors. The company bought a Cleveland factory, but the plan fell through. Nobody wanted to put up the $8 million capital he needed. As Dearborn Motors took over Ferguson's suppliers and dealers, the Ferguson company began to fall apart...
Home Builder. Plastics were also well represented at the show. Beetle Boat Co., Inc.'s 12½-ft. centerboard sailboat was molded in one piece of Fiberglas. From his Tulsa factory, Gar Wood Jr. flew in two 16-ft. speedboats pressed from a plastic called "Nautilite." Other novelties: seat cushions with phosphorescent side-strips, non-tipping gasoline cans, an automatic pilot for outboard motors, a mechanism which automatically frees snagged outboard propellers...