Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades, Hamtramck has been shrinking, partly as a result of the success of Henry Ford's notion that the workingman might one day be able to afford one of the cars he made. The town was a sleepy German farm community when Horace and John Dodge built a plant to supply Ford with axles, transmissions, steering gears and crankcases. By 1914 the two brothers were building their own cars at Hamtramck, and by 1928, when Walter P. Chrysler's automotive conglomerate bought them out, the Dodges had one of the largest and most complete car plants...