Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity for delayed and dignified explanations in the Times, and Henry is quite right. Had he appended his name to the code, he would have been, not a leader, but a neatly cooperating cog in the machine; his remarks on the subject of what has already been done at Dearborn would not have carried the weight they now do. Henry, of course, believes that years from now, when the President's fair weather friends have left him, when the storms of capitalist opposition howl mercilessly about the White House, he will come to the fore with his support; we will...
Early next month when all automobile makers begin exhibiting their new cars in 1934's motor shows, Henry Ford will not be among them. He does not exhibit at such shows. But last week he invited a bevy of newshawks to his engineering laboratory at Dearborn, to the Dearborn Inn, served them lunch with beer, showed them his 1934 model...
That night he and his son entrained for Manhattan to make an advance inspection of the "Ford Exposition of Progress" in the new Port Authority Commerce Building on Manhattan's lower west side. There were exhibits brought from Dearborn: Ford's original machine shop, an 1863 Austin steamer, a one-cylinder Cadillac of 1902, the first Ford Model A of 1903, Ford's "999" racer with which he broke the world's speed record in 1902, the first Model T, the 15-millionth and 20-millionth Ford. Against this background, the Ford 1934 models were unveiled...
...Code with the rest of the industry, he did so from the silent fastness of the Michigan woods. When the States of Pennsylvania, Maine and Tennessee announced they would not buy his cars, he remained silent. But now. cracked down on by the U. S. Government, the Master of Dearborn broke his silence with a long and bitter public statement. Excerpts...
...they refuse to throw open their books to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, and this, since they are not members, is reasonable enough. General Johnson, however, is eager for a test of his much touted enforcement machinery, and there is little doubt that he will visit vengeance in Dearborn unless the Fords capitulate...