Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aged 40, he raised $28,000 and started again, this time to make his "car for the masses." Nevertheless, his Ford Motor Co. at one point was only $223.65 short of bankruptcy again. It was saved only by the arrival of an $850 check from a Dr. Pfenning of Chicago, who bought the company's first car. In two years the company was so successful it could proudly mail out a 100% dividend...
...Henry Ford never threw anything away. Fair Lane's store will not only enrich future biographies of Ford; it is also a great hoard of source material on the history of the auto age. Archivists have still studied only a tiny part of the collection...
...rich storehouse of Americana at Fair Lane were the love letters of Ford to his wife, Clara, a paper boy's receipt for 45? that Ford paid him in 1894, a receipted bill for four pounds of trout (price 72?) delivered in 1906, the bill for the gasoline for his first car, letters from Presidents and crowned heads, and thousands of letters that Ford did not even bother to open-some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested...
...Every Family." In his lifetime. Henry Ford was damned from time to time as a Communist (for his $5-a-day wage), an anarchist, an anti-Semite, a Fascist; he was praised as the greatest living American, whose diverse interests (e.g., planes, rubber growing, synthetics, early American furniture) made him seem a kind of machine-age Leonardo. Now the archives reveal for the first time what manner of man he really...
...masses . . . One in every family . . . Nothing will do as much to make good roads as a car in every family." But instead of a car for the masses, his first two companies, formed in 1899 and 1901, made expensive racing cars. In one of them, Ford became the first man to travel 90 m.p.h., and won such fame as a racer that he wrote, optimistically, to his wife's brother: "There is a barrel of money in this business." There wasn't: both companies went bankrupt...