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...hard Harry Bennett. Sorensen, Danish-born, came to the company in 1904, has heard all the dreams of Henry and Edsel, and translated them into cars off the production line, planes winging from Willow Run. Bennett is no production man. Upon his pugilist's shoulders has rested the Atlantean task of protecting the empire from anything which Henry Ford wants it protected from. Hired to guard the Rouge plant against saboteurs in 1917, he stayed to guard the Ford family from kidnappers and later futilely tried to bar the door against collective bargaining...
...Atlantis: The Antediluvian World was his most sensational book. In Lost Atlantis James Bramwell has placed it in perspective against some 1,700 other works about the sunken continent, acknowledges that for many believers in the Atlantis theory Donnelly's masterpiece is the "beall and end-all of Atlantean studies." Author Bramwell himself takes the Atlantis myth seriously, but his main purpose is to review Atlantean writing from Plato to the findings of contemporary geologists. The result is another literary oddity, a smoothly-written, ironic 288-page essay, partly a compendium of the work of cranks, partly exposition...
Most surprising information in Lost Atlantis is that believers in the theory are becoming more numerous, more scientific, and crankier. In France an Atlantean society split into two groups on theoretical questions about the make-up of the hypothetical continent, began disrupting each other's meetings with real tear-gas bombs. In Denmark enthusiasts founded a principality of Atlantis, issued coins and stamps and placed Prince Christian on their imaginary throne. In Germany another wrote a book to prove that Atlantis was the original home of the Aryans, that when it was destroyed only three Aryans escaped. "Then comes...