Tag: Henry Ford
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The answer is work
This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression. After the long highly “grammatical” intro, we hear a long florid verbose oration by Henry himself: The answer is work.…
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Ford for thought
PR Newswire cites the Edelman Trust Barometer: = = = = = START PR: Innovation is accelerating and should be a growth enabler, but it will be stymied if business doesn’t pay as much attention to acceptance as it does research and development. More than two-thirds of our respondents who say innovation is poorly managed…
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More anniversaries
Jan 20 is one of my anniversary dates. = = = = = PARTIAL REPRINT: When I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. I restarted college on Jan 20, 1970. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the…
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Non-hostile divorce
Most successful companies started as hostile divorces or shotgun marriages (LBOs). In autos, all the big names but Ford and Packard started as splits or buyouts**. Hudson’s origin was unusual. It was founded by salesman Roy Chapin and engineer Howard Coffin. Both originally worked at Oldsmobile. When Oldsmobile was bought by Wall Street types who…
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Three parallels
Since 2008 I’ve been trying to highlight and illustrate better ways of solving the problems created by Wall Street. The New Deal was the most effective solution. It was preceded by Mutual Benefit Societies in the 1880s, then Social Economics around 1910. All three movements continued in various ways until Wall Street finally killed everything…
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Ford and Carver!
Two of my favorite people worked together. I’ve read about Ford’s attempt to make car bodies out of soybean-derived plastic. I’ve seen pictures of Henry demonstrating the strength of a plastic trunk lid on an otherwise normal ’40 Ford. I’ve never seen this unique modernistic car before! Ford commissioned Carver to develop the chemical process…
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Mutual is NOT dead.
While researching IOOF for Eureka Lake I realized that the IOOF is NOT dead yet. It hasn’t devolved into a drinking club or sold out to commercial insurance firms like most other societies. It still runs modern retirement homes in at least three states, and has active lodges and new members in many cities. Trinity…
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We’re supposed to waste our emotions
As usual we have dozens of overdoses every day, some fatal. There are two responses. Dark humor and caring. Dark humor is winning, as more and more people realize that caring is a fraud. Media and rulers want us to CARE about everything so they can feed our caring with solutions that make things worse.…
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Better prescription
Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone correctly diagnoses the current Machiavellian monstrosity in US/UK/EU. His proposed solution is wrong. = = = = = START DIAGNOSIS: A perfect storm of crises has been building. It comes from still bubbling rage with governments for their single-minded obsession with Covid and the lasting damage caused by lockdowns, masks, and…
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Worst of both systems
Continuing from the Person Of The King. I’ve made this comparison hundreds of times now and it’s still valid. Execs of corporations get painlessly retired with a golden parachute when they’re incompetent or unsuitable for any reason. The only exception is when he’s the founder, like Elon or Henry Ford. Even in small businesses the…
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Gets SKILL-ESTATE
Here’s an important essay on the new shape of the world after US crumbles. This author understands the KEY role of SKILL-ESTATE. = = = = = START QUOTE: While money and the military are indispensable, soft power is more crucial in a world of 8 billion people, who have easy access to diverse and…
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Continuing on grammar…
Continuing from grammar and utility. Before the holocaust I was exploring this subject in detail, noticing that languages without noun cases correlated strongly with Sorosian destruction. The holocaust derailed me; maybe I can get back on track. In yesterday’s piece I mentioned but didn’t emphasize the TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS, which are the key to real civilization.…
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ISM means Not
In general but not always, an ISM negates the work of the man whose name precedes the ISM. DarwinISM misinterprets what Charles Darwin really said and worked for. MarxISM directly and precisely negates what Karl Marx actually said. FreudISM corrupts and simplifies Sigmund Freud’s work. The same rule applies, with more exceptions, to foundations and…
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Henry’s Hudson
Vintage.es has some nice pix of Henry with his first 1896 car. The sequence runs from original 1896, with Henry looking dapper in his handlebar mustache, to the late anniversary occasions, with Henry not quite all there. I’ve been focusing on Hudson lately, so one thing stands out immediately in the details. Henry’s first car…
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Normal stage
MindMatters notes a splitup in Satan Altman’s company. Several top execs are leaving all at once. There’s no point in speculating about the detailed reasons for the split, which is a typical stage in a fast-growing company with a fanatical founder. At some point the fanatical founder needs to PURIFY his execs, and the less…
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