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May 11, 2024 · In the town’s center stood the Dearborn, Michigan-style factories, looking lost in the jungle. Disillusioned with American urbanism, Ford envisioned the rubber plantation as a modern pastoral paradise. Under his orders, American executives enforced a ban on gambling, prostitution and alcohol. Hygiene was strictly monitored.
May 13, 2024 · It was a planned industrial (plantation) town spanning 14,000 square kilometers that Henry Ford sited in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in the 1920s. The plan was a rubber plantation to supply latex for the company’s tire production stateside, but logistical and ecological challenges in the Tapajos River basin led to the project’s failure.
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1 day ago · Henry Ford Portrait by Fred Hartsook, c. 1919 Born (1863-07-30) July 30, 1863 Springwells Township, Michigan, U.S. Died April 7, 1947 (1947-04-07) (aged 83) Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. Resting place Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan Occupations Engineer industrialist publisher philanthropist Years active 1891–1945 Known for Founding and leading the Ford Motor Company Pioneering a system that ...
Demands for presentation to Henry Ford: Jobs for all laid-off Ford workers Immediate payment of fifty percent of wages to laid off workers Six-hour day without reduction in pay Slowing down of the deadly speed up Two fifteen-minute rest periods. No discrimination against Negroes as to jobs, relief, medical service
May 10, 2024 · But he needed control over a rubber supply. So why not make it himself? In the 1920s, most rubber was produced in Southeast Asia. Rumors of a rubber cartel that could dictate prices worldwide sparked the decision to create a plantation where he could produce his own supply. Ford...
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2 days ago · This all sounds perfectly normal today but it was a novel approach to racing in the mid-1950s. The 1956 300-B displayed in the Henry Ford museum achieved the holy grail of engine tuning: one ...
