by Greg Grandin
Ford popularized the protocols of the elders of Zion
Hitler admired Ford
Industrial pastoralism
Tried to buy the area called Muscle Shoals
Was a hero for many South Americans
For Ford, the Amazon offered a fresh start in a place he imagined to be uncorrupted by Union’s, politician’s, juice, lawyer’s, militarist’s, and New York bankers, a chance to join not just factory and feel but industry and community and a Union that would yield, in addition to greater efficiency, fully realized men period page 82
Forward established a credit union karma both to encourage savings and to make low interest loans available so workers didn’t have to go to an outside quote outside Shylock for assistance Period close He also opened up factory pharmacies and commissaries, which, unlike the infamous company’s store that kept workers perpetually indebted, provided employees a wide range of high quality products at low prices, often below cost period Page 90
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Highland Park was civilized, said Walter ruthercomma who is head of the United auto workers Union was the man responsible, years later, for ending Bennett’s reign of Terra, but the rose was a jungle period p. 94
Forward agreed to issue statement apologizing for his anti-Semitism, written by Louis Marshall, had the American Jewish committee and one of Ford’s chief critics period
I deem it to be my duty as an honorable man to make amends for the wrong done to the Jews as fellow men and brothers, by asking their forgiveness for the harm that I have unintentionally committed, by retracting so far as lies within my power the offensive charges lay at their door
For dislike Franklin Roosevelt. He did like unions.
The state of Para seated Ford just under 2.5 million acres, a bit less than what the Dearborn lawyer sketched out on the map but, at the at close to the size of Connecticut, still a vast dispenstation half of this was from the velari’s claim, for which Ford was to PAY a $125000 a pittance considering the company’s enormous wealth public land covered the other half, which board received for free period Page 106
Incredible bad planning planet rubber at the wrong time of year tried to clear the timber at the wrong time of the year no housing not enough hospitals just ridiculous
Jatulio Vargas came to power Often compared to FDR
Vargas supported the effort to bound for portlandia
Diego Rivera painting
Greenfield village
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a big influence
The main struts of Henry Ford’s philosophy all had antecedents in the 18th and 19th century American political and literary concepts: that mechanization marked not the contest but the realization of nature’s secrets and thus the attainment of the pastorial ideal that history is best understood in the progress of this realization, of the gradual liberation of humans from the soil crushing 12: and that American America has a provincial role to play in the world’s history in achieving this liberation it was from such well Springs of technological optimism that Ford was drawing when he predicted that his Muscle Shoals project would make it new Eden of our Mississippi Valley, turning it into a great garden and powerhouse of The country period. Page 257
To those who thought industrialization dead in mind and the spirit, forward responded by saying that 1 was the true cause of alienation period
Specifically, Ford refused to warm to Roosevelt in his new dealers people like that he told Charles Lindbergh always get what’s coming to them but Ford not only saw the country elect FDR 4 times but witnessed the federal government complete its Tennessee Valley authority project, in effect carrying out the Muscle Shoals proposal forward made a decade earlier. It would be Roosevelt and I had reported who would bring cheap electrical power to the farmers of the lower appalachian valley.
Ford manager’s, said the priest, never really figured out what country they were in period
Metal roof houses. Amazon.
For Henry Ford, gardening captured his vision of holistic immersonian self-sufficiency, in which esthetics in economics, nature and mechanics work as one periodPage 277
And so in for landia, as part of the Post riot rebuilding program, both Henry and Clara Ford became personally involved in promoting gardening, saying that it was their express wish that the planting of flowers and vegetables be incorporated into the State’s school cricket team and encouraged among its workers page 278