... , controlling only 28% of the market 2nd to GM with 31%. Henry Ford was the main contributor to the automobile industry in the early 1900's. The development of his River Rouge plant was considered an "Industrial Cathedral." Hundreds waited month after month in front of the employment building hoping to be hired. To foreign immigrants it meant hope and a successful future ... . The River Rouge plant employed over 50,000 employees. Henry Ford cared dearly for his employees, teaching the illiterate how to read in a small school he set up for his employees. Company picnics ... of trying to "...

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... other parts move by them on a conveyer belt. Though the factory he was in was large he needed a bigger one. So in 1917 they began construction on a factory near the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan. Edsel Ford became president of the Ford Motor Company factory in 1919. The factory is finished in 1927. So the assembly line moves to the bigger ... and Clara Ford's only son dies in 1943. He died at age 49 from a stroke. The Model -T made the Ford Motor Company the largest factory in the world. The big Rouge Plant had everything the company needed. It had a steel miller, glass factory, and...

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As Henry Ford and eleven others filed incorporation papers at Michigan's State Capitol, the rest of the world didn't know that they would change the world forever. It was midway through 1903 when a consortium invested in the start of the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford had been working on an inte...

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