You probably already know how Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, used the moving assembly line and other mass-production techniques to revolutionize the auto industry. By 1923, 57 percent of all the cars manufactured in the United States, and half of all the cars on Earth, were Fords.
What's less well-known about Henry Ford is how close he came to destroying the Ford Motor Company in the later years of his life. The only reason you can still buy a Ford today is that the other members of the Ford family were able to wrest control of the family company away from him before it collapsed entirely.
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Plus he was a horrible, horrible anti-semite. So was lucky lindy... I guess no one is perfect.
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