Word: fording
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When the U. S. Steel Corporation acquired its own railroad lines to expedite the passage of its raw material and products from mine to mill, much comment was occasioned. In recent years, the example set by the Steel Corporation has been followed by Henry Ford in acquiring the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad...
...luncheon and clinic at the Henry Ford Hospital was arranged for all members of the Detroit Academy of Surgery. Invitations were issued. A very few members accepted. The arrangements were cancelled...
...Leland now complains bitterly that Mr. Ford has not lived up to his part of this agreement. Leland's control of the plant, he declares, has been interfered with by Ford agents, and while Ford has paid $4,000,000 to the Lincoln's approved creditors, he has done nothing for the Company's stockholders...
...Leland's statement cites the many times he has tried in vain to see Mr. Ford to straighten out the tangle, and flatly declares that the latter has openly refused to fulfil his part of the agreement. This attitude on Mr. Ford's part is attributed by Col. Leland to a desire for revenge; in 1902 Henry Ford was dismissed from the Detroit Automobile Co., in which Col. Leland, a pioneer in the industry, was a prominent factor. Leland disclaims any part in Ford's dismissal, but he states that Ford had declared, "I wouldn...
...Ford has not replied to Col. Leland's personal, attack upon him, and it is generally supposed that the veteran automobile maker will take his grievance to the courts, to force at settlement with the Fords...