Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent Mr. PPP, turned suddenly, in the current issue of his Forbes magazine, and railed -against Henry Ford. By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars. And he illustrated the article with a caricature of Mr. Ford "shown dressed as a gentleman of 1860 driving a typical vehicle of that period." The "Henry Ford" of the picture has a big ear, sidewhiskers, mustache, horseteeth, a head far too large for his high hat, and braided pants. Excerpts from...
...Moekle of Ford Motor Co.'s auditing department went by train from Detroit to Boston last week, bearing as courier the balance sheet of his company's 1926 business. At Boston he paid the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations (Henry F. Long) $10* as a filing fee and the report became the tidbit of public prattle. The annual statement, composed of a few hundred arabic numerals, naturally told nothing of the internal affairs of the Ford Motor Co. President Edsel B. Ford and his father and mother still make that their private business. They own all the outstanding shares...
...Automobile men declare that no other motor manufacturer would dare to act towards his dealers as Ford has acted and still acts. Be that as it may, this I do know: . . . 'Ford is absolutely ruthless in his treatment of the people working for him or representing him. No man, no matter how responsible his position, can feel secure. Men are fired right and left, without rhyme or reason. The Ford management is a hotbed of jealousy and intrigue...
...famous motor engineer remains on the Ford staff. Ford himself is so dictatorial that the brainiest engineers in the country couldn't possibly get along smoothly with...
John North Willys owns the U. S. rights to the use of the Knight, sleeve-valve motor. Wary of competition, he has restricted its use in this country to his Willys-Knight and Stearns-Knight motor cars and General Motors Yellow Cab.* Last week appeared a fourth, the Falcon-Knight, six-cylinder car made at Elyria, Ohio, to sell at about...