1. Henry Ford
... was free to embark on a great new project: the design and construction of the world's largest and most efficient automobile factory at River Rouge, near Detroit. Arrayed over 2,000 acres, it would include 90 miles of railroad track and enough space for 75,000 employees to produce finished ... to the federal courts. Ford was constrained to negotiate a standard labor contract after a successful strike by the workers at his main plant at River Rouge, Michigan, in April 1941. Early in 1941 Ford was granted government contracts whereby he was, at first, to manufacture parts for bombers and, ....
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