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...Others believe he is alarmed by the Ford Motor Co.'s striking loss of business in the last few years, although this has been due largely to competition of other manufacturers...
Edsel Ford. To Edsel Ford, only child of Henry Ford, and President of the Ford Motor Co., the Chicago Journal of Commerce imputed credit for Henry Ford's face-about: "It seems reasonable to suspect that Edsel Ford has had a hand in these evolutions and revolutions. Edsel has given a general impression of steadiness, of balance. In this respect he has been much unlike his brilliant father. Ordinarily a poor man, grown rich, must take pains so that his son shall not be spoiled. In the case of the Fords the procedure has been reversed. . . . Meanwhile Edsel Ford, growing...
...mind; or perhaps young Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal. A motor car, approaching at great speed, droned louder...
After the success of his demonstration plane, Mr. Martin said that the performance of its air-cooled motor had made the water-cooled motor "obsolete" for aircraft. Air-cooled (Wright Whirlwind) motors have been used on the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd transatlantic flights and on the flight to Honolulu...
Those who heard this last announcement chuckled or swore, then retired to a peaceful repose. Not so did hundreds who had not listened to the end, but instead had rushed from their homes, leaped into motor cars, and dashed for remote wooded places where they could hide unnoticed...