Hero

Years hence, when the definitive biography of Henry Ford is written, there will be a paragraph beginning with the hour of 8:25 on the Sunday evening of March 27, 1927. At that moment he, aged 64, climbed into a Ford coupe at his factory laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., pointed the car's nose toward his home, half a mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a...

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