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Many years ago, as one may well guess, Henry Ford had a dream with four wheels on it. In 1903 he began to manufacture it; he did not have any cash, so he cajoled some skeptical Detroiters into putting up $28,000 (the only moneys ever invested in the Ford...
The suit is the climax of a long-standing antipathy between the two wealthiest men in U. S. political life. One of course, is Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, aluminum potentate and banker. The other is that onetime coal-yard-worker, James Couzens, who is now Senator from...
The Government contends that the profits from the sale of the (41½%) minority interests in the Ford Motor Co. to Henry and Edsel Ford in 1919 for $100,000,000 were underestimated by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Wilson Administration. Hence, the Government wants Mr. Couzens, the...
Senator James Couzens of Michigan: "My 1,000-acre, $100,000 Wabeek Farms near Orchard Lake, Mich., have always shown a deficit. Whether this is because I, frankly, am 'no farmer' or because U. S. farming is fundamentally unprofitable, I do not know. To decide this point, I...
Interpreneur Couzens has learned that not enough U. S. householders are yet willing to pay cash for even a standardized iceless refrigerator. They are habituated to the trade custom of instalment payments. So, last week, Mr. Couzens in disgust dissolved his company.