... ranks, controlling only 28% of the market 2nd to GM with 31%. Henry Ford was the godfather of the automobile industry in the early 1900's. The development of his River Rouge plant was considered a "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. Pols, Lithuanians, Germans, almost every western Europe country could be represented at the Ford Plant. Like a father Henry Ford began educational programs, teachi...

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... , 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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... ranks, controlling only 28% of the market 2nd to GM with 31%. Henry Ford was the godfather of the automobile industry in the early 1900's. The development of his River Rouge plant was considered a "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. Pols, Lithuanians, Germans, almost every western Europe country could be represented at the Ford Plant. Like a father Henry Ford began educational programs, teachi...

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... for diverting profits into company expansion. Although the court ruled in favor of the stockholders, by 1920, Ford was able to buy them out. He built a huge plant in River Rouge, and the company became almost entirely self-sufficient (www.incwell.com/biographies/ford). In the 1920s the Ford Motor Company continued to grow rapidly. In 1925 Ford was producing 10 ... ...

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... using money to expand the company. The courts fell in favor of the stockholders. In 1920 Ford bought them out of it. Also in 1920, Ford built a plant in River Rouge. Now his company was nearly self sufficient. This way he would stay under the "legal radar" of the time. There was no further legal troubles for a long time after this ... ...

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