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For My Mentors In Honor of Solomon Wank and James Banner and In Memory of Norman Smith and Melvin Kranzberg Henry Ford would be less than the man he is if, walking by the River Rouge, he did not thrill at the sight of his huge plant growing huger and huger by the day. But the old man’s dearest dream is no longer of piling building on building in metropolitan congestion. A farm boy who has kept his love of the land, Ford now visions the “little factory in a meadow” as the future shape of American industry. . . . Ford will furnish land for use by those who do not have farms or gardens. Henry Ford is convinced that, for happiness and security, the worker of the future must divide his time between factory and farm. —Life, May 30, 1938 ...

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