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Henry Ford

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[[Image:HenryFord.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Henry Ford next to a Model T car.]]
'''Henry Ford''' lived from 1863 to 1947. He founded the [[Ford Motor Company]] at age 40. An American legend and a patriot, his manufacturing prowess in aviation helped bring about allied victory during [[World War II]].<ref>[http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=73&CFID=11765032&CFTOKEN=66041366 Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy] by Jenny Nolan, The Detroit News, January 28, 1997.</ref>
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“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success,” said Ford. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
He invented the [[Model T]] [[automobile]]. This invention completely revolutionized the [[world]] of his day. He mass produced his Model T using the [[assembly line]], making cars affordable to the common person for the first time ever. He also paid his workers very well, which, in the long run, paid off as he was creating his own [[consumers]]. That too was a new idea. He was also a noted inventor with 161 U.S. [[patent]]s to his credit.
==Activism==
Henry Ford was a notorious anti-Semite. <ref>Ford the Anti-Semite [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_03/b3766025.htm]</ref> He was responsible for the publication, in the U.S. of the ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' and several other pamphlets aimed against the Jewish people. He even wrote his own anti-Semitic book ''The International Jew'', a work deeply admired by Hitler, who is reported to have said the text gave him a great deal of support and strength. <ref> Ford's Anti-semitic book[http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/51/pauwels.html]</ref> In fact, Ford was so admired by Hitler that Hitler kept a picture of Ford in his office, credited Ford in ''Mein Kampf'' and awarded Ford the Grand Service Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle. <ref> Ford's honors from the Nazi government [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_03/b3766025.htm]</ref>
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