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...timber was beginning to put forth its springtime tendrils. Senator Oscar W. Underwood sailed for Europe, saying that he would consider his candidacy when he returned. Hopeful Senator Hiram W. Johnson went overseas?looking perhaps for ammunition to fire at President Harding's foreign policy. The name of Henry Ford was on the tip of many a tongue. William G. McAdoo was paving his path to the Democratic Convention. President Harding, bent on a deserved rest, turned south to Florida; and Senator William E. Borah, going home to Idaho, stopped at Akron, Ohio, to remark that a third party...
Then came Hallowe'en with pumpkins and practical jokes; and after Hallowe'en, election day. Warren G. Harding and Hiram W. Johnson, William G. McAdoo, Oscar Underwood, Henry Ford, who began the contest, had departed the field. The ship subsidy, the World Court, the bonus, tax reduction?great issues earlier in the fight?were lost or had dwindled into insignificance for the most part...
...publication of income taxes brought out some interesting facts about corporations as well as about individuals. The greatest single tax paid by any one industrial organization was $15,930,901-the 1923 income tax of the U. S. Steel Corporation. The similar tax paid by the Ford Motor Co. the same year was $14,449,673. The Ford Co. started with a capitalization of only $100,000, of which only $28,000 was in actual cash. The Steel Corporation, on the other hand, started with a capitalization of over a billion, including bonds. Today, the Ford Co. has no bonds...
Much money can be lost through poorly kept accounts. Henry Ford has always stressed accurate and efficient business records, and when he acquired his railroad, the Detroit...
...When Mr. Ford took charge of the D., T. & I. its accounts were handled in 54 separate offices, including those of the superintendent, the chief engineer, the master mechanic and the storehouse keeper. Speedily all these accounts were transferred into a single office...