It is always good fun to compute the output of the Ford Motor Co., the centre of U. S. business romance. The Wall Street Journal from time to time publishes some crumbs of Ford information which its agents pick up in Detroit. That is where these statistics of Ford's year production came from, that the paper published last week:
1921 928,750
1922 1,232,209
1923 1,915,485
1924 1,790,278
1925 1,798,123
1926 1,447,915
The figures for 1926 are frankly based on the presumption that only 40,000 cars were made in December because the Ford plants worked but...
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