... the Ford Motor Company, was controlling 60% of the automobile market. Durant was poised to monopolize the automobile industry purchasing companies and formalizing them all under one unit. William Durant was a flamboyant businessman whose curious mix of genius and over-reaching took GM both to its heights as well as plunged it into financial distress. By 1910, GM already reached $1 million ... with their administration. This policy system remained crucial to the success of GM through the Great Depression. The late 1930s saw imperialism and wars breaking out in Europe and Asia. Austria, Hu...

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... repeatedly cut prices and boost quality at the same time? His ingenuity took the assembly line method of production to new heights of productivity and efficiency, but he shook the industrial world to its foundations with an amazing gamble: he doubled wages and reduced working hours. "The payment of five dollars ... without the assembly line and the five-dollar a day wage, the affordability of the Model T would not be accomplished. Many of Ford's great accomplishments had changed the whole entire lifestyle of America and made it into what we know today. History of the Automotive Industry...

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