Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day for Inventor Harry Ferguson. Less than 15 months after Henry Ford II had stopped producing Ferguson tractors, Irish-born Harry Ferguson stepped into his first tractor to drive it out of his new Detroit plant. He had something to crow about...
...workers can walk around the tractor and do several assembly jobs-instead of being pulled along a continuous assembly line. Ferguson expects to turn out 100 tractors a day within two months, 500 when his production line hits its stride. List price: $1,470, more than $200 higher than Ford tractors...
...Ford Theater...
Exemptees at the Annex include Susan Anderson, Martha Ford, Ellinor Robinson, Helen Steckmost, Dorothy Tobkin, and Mary Ella Towle...
...partner in an American banking firm before World War II and that this company provided the Nazis with American patents necessary for war-making. Perhaps you have also forgotten that many other American firms helped out the Nazi government in its early, and sometimes in its later, stages. Henry Ford, the anti-semitic, was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and his bully-boys, using his vast resources to aid the latter. A picture of Ford hung in Hitler's office...