Henry Ford II (1917-1987) was an American industrialist. He turned his grandfather's faltering automobile company into the second largest industrial corporation in the world.Henry Ford II was born in ...
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A Natural TalentBorn in 1863,
Henry
Ford
was raised on a Michigan farm. Though his childhood was as mundane as any other farm boy's, he showed a talent for engineering at an early age. At 16 he s...
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Today is Tuesday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2007. There are 293 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 13, 1925, a law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of...
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Today is Friday, July 13, the 194th day of 2007. There are 171 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 13, 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death ...
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Alexandra BoulatPARIS (AP) _ French photojournalist Alexandra Boulat, whose photographs from Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia gave the world an intimate look at life in conflict zones, d...
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In the rarefied air of East Side real estate, 2004's highlights included billionaire Ron Perelman suing a sidewalk café and hawkish co-op tenants evicting endangered birds from their longtime ...
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When Carroll Shelby raced cars in the 1950s, he kept a nitroglycerine pill under his tongue just in case his heart couldn't keep pace with the speed of the competition.Shelby, whose very name epito...
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Henry Ford, II
American Dreamer: The Life of HenryFord
