Word: fording
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...Ford attends to common charity. Her husband hates it. He once gave $17 to a man and it ruined him; since then he has given men just jobs, jobs and more jobs...
Disregarding " social" nonsense, Mr. and Mrs. Ford built their permanent home on the banks of the Rouge in Dearborn, where they were boy and girl lovers together?in sight of the cottage where they dreamed the future together. The house is large, not pretentious; there are servants, but the footman does not laugh up his sleeve while " Mr. Ford takes the jackets off his potatoes boiled-with-the-skin-on." Over the fireplace is inscribed: " Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice...
...Henry Ford is hopelessly indebted to his former executives, such as Senator Couzens, whom he has made rich, but whom he ruthlessly " scrapped." It is the moral and personal indebtedness which is the only kind Ford does not know...
...Henry Ford, "behind a Chinese wall" of isolation, is one of the most difficult men in America to see, although "when you once get to him he is the soul of geniality...
...Henry Ford loves nature and children, but his chief hobby is work...