The miracle of mass production

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1. @ bernard ross:

   No only would my Dad not buy a Ford,he would not allow me to say Ford.

2. danost Said:

   Its not only ol Henry Ford who was antisemitic,

   Henry ford was an exceptionally nasty peice of work who worked and invested voraciously against the Jews. He funded the nazi killing machine as did many other US tycoons. He spread the blood libel of the “protocols of elders of zion” This goes way back before the 1950’s to the early 1900’s. He was a low life piece of sh*t whose assets should have been seized and distributed to those to whom he was an accessory in murder rather than lauded as some sort of hero. Perhaps the future will rectify these glaring injustices which have been allowed to remain.

3. @ bernard ross:
   Its not only ol Henry Ford who was antisemitic, most of the auto industry was, how much so it still is I don’t know. Back then there was the policy of “no dogs and no Jews” hired in Detroits auto industry, especially so in Ford. Thus many Jews back then in the 1950’s and beyond would not buy Ford products. How much things have changed since those dark days, I don’t know.

4. Henry Ford was determined that he could mass produce bombers just as he had
   done with cars.

   I wonder which part of this process Henry Ford undertook himself. I doubt that he wrote the checks or even signed the lucrative government contracts he received. He didn’t do any labor, design or engineering. He didn’t organize how the factory would mass produce. His name is all over only becuase he had the money and the gov. contracts. This is the same Ford who funded the nazis and spread anti semitism voraciously. Even today the foundations bearing his name are funding anti israel libels, propaganda and trying to destroy Israel. The fact that big money was in the hands of such people, including many other wealthy barons of the time, was a driving force in the rise of the nazis and the murder of Jews. the national socialists were their progeny. Ford never paid reparations and his shares and despicable escapades still accrue to his descendants as opposed to the jews he murdered. In a just civilization and economy his shares would be in the hands of those he damaged just like John Manville went to its asbestos victims.

5. @ danost:

   “She used to tell us how she would go home at night and cry because they were forced to give a passing grade to some critical parts that would test as defective, knowing that American lives depended on the parts actually being up to standard. But production quotas ( and of course payment ) for those parts had to be realized …..”

   This forms the background of the 1947 Arthur Miller play, All My Sons, adapted for film the following year; remade in 1987.

6. Things are not always as rosy as in movies. When I lived in L.A., we had friends there one of whom worked in one component parts factory of such aircraft. She used to tell us how she would go home at night and cry because they were forced to give a passing grade to some critical parts that would test as defective, knowing that American lives depended on the parts actually being up to standard. But production quotas ( and of course payment ) for those parts had to be realized …..

7. @ Laura:

   You just live in the WRONG part of the country!!! Come down to South Teas if you want to experience “can-do”.

8. Unfortunately we are not that great can-do nation anymore.