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Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, Mich...
...when the U.S. was attacked. He called in his executives and said (weeks before the new War Production Board ordered auto production stopped): "We might as well quit making cars now." The same week he piled some of his aides into an automobile, made a tour of the whole Dearborn empire. At each building he discussed what was made there, at each building ordered: "Get a defense job going in there quick...
Henry Ford threatened legal action against the Ku Klux Klan unless they stopped reprinting in pamphlets anti-Semitic articles from Ford's old Dearborn Independent. Through his attorney he pointed out to Imperial Wizard James A. Colescott that he had retracted the articles in 1928. Wizard Colescott said the Klan had stopped circulating the pamphlets the day war was declared...
...Because a lot of water power is going to waste near the Upper Michigan deposits, says Henry Ford, "we could process the poor-grade ore right at the source and ship a pure product instead of shipping bulky ore all the way to our blast furnaces [at Dearborn...
...week. At Ypsilanti, Mich. Ford-men worked 24 hours daily (under big floodlights at night) to finish the biggest U.S. bomber plant (see cut). The first mass-produced four-engined bomber should roll out of Ypsilanti by spring, but handmade jobs from Ford's Dearborn plant are expected before Christmas...