Henry Ford's Own Story

Henry Ford's Own Story - How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity

Twenty-six years later a little neighborhood on the edge of Detroit was amused to hear that the man Ford who had just built the little white house on the corner had a notion that he could invent something. He was always puttering away in the old shed back of the house. Sometimes he worked all night there. The neighbors saw the light burning through the cracks. Twelve years ago half a dozen men in Detroit were actually driving the Ford automobile about the streets. Ford had started a small factory, with a dozen mechanics, and was buying material. It was freely predicted that the venture would never come to much. Last yearJanuary, 1914America was startled by an announcement from the Ford factory that ten million dollars would be divided among the eighteen thousand employees as their share of the companys profits. Henry Ford was a multimillionaire, and America regarded him with awe. Mankind must have its hero. The demand for him is more insistent than hunger, more inexorable than cold or fear. Before a race builds houses or prepares food with its hands, it creates in its mind that demigod, that superman, standing on a higher plane than the rest of humanity, more admirable, more powerful than the others. We must have him as a symbol of something greater than ourselves, to keep alive in us that faith in life which is threatened by our own experience of living. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 46121
Author: Lane, Rose Wilder
Release Date: Jun 28, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English