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...extraordinary success of the Dodges dates back to 1901, when they took over a small machine shop for debt. Just at that time, Henry Ford was hunting for a plant in which to manufacture his first cars. Shortly after, the Ford Motor Co. was formed. Ford owned about a fourth of its stock at first, and contributed his idea, plans and inventive skill. The Dodge brothers participated heavily, turning in to the new Company their motor experience as well as their shop. Executive experience was supplied by Mr. James Couzens (now a U. S. Senator), at that time a thrifty...
...Dodges were, however, anxious to build a higher-class car, in opposition to Ford's continual and exclusive interest in the cheap vehicle. Finally, in 1914, they retired from the Ford Motor Co., later cashing in their investment at a colossal profit, and set up for them- selves as the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co. In the higher-price car field, they at once encountered keen competition. Yet their experience, engineering skill and ability in marketing their product soon led to a second success even surpassing their part in the first...
...annual report of the Ford Motor Co. is almost too good to be true. It reveals a financial success beyond the wildest dreams of most corporation executives. Also, it is undoubtedly one of the most lop- sided and extraordinary company statements in the world...
...cars, trucks and tractors in this country and 190,000 sold abroad. Thus, net profit per unit manufactured last year amounted to $47, as against $37 in ten months of the previous fiscal year, and $77 in the year ending Feb. 28, 1923. Thus even Henry Ford is feeling the diminishing profits generally complained of in the motor industry, although he has by no means reached the place where he has cause for complaint himself...
...political theory. One does not believe in facts: one accepts them. I think Mr. Bryan is worth hearing on any subject, regardless of whether he knows anything about it or not, Intellectually. I have the same interest in Mr. Bryan's ideas of evolution as I have in Henry Ford's ideas on the prose of George Moore or Mary Pickford's ideas on the theory of relativity, or for that matter, what Queen Victoria thought about the procession of equinoxes...