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The Age of Big Business

CHAPTER VII
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The workman drives the now finished Ford to a loading platform, it is stored away in a box car, and is started on its way to market.

At the present time about 2000 cars are daily turned out in this fashion.

The nation demands them at a more rapid rate than they can be made.
Herein we have what is probably America's greatest manufacturing exploit.

And this democratization of the automobile comprises more than the acme of efficiency in the manufacturing art.

The career of Henry Ford has a symbolic significance as well.


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