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Henry Fords Timeline 2 of 2 from 1914 - 1947 at Timeline Help.
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| Shares profits of the Ford Motor Company with his employees in Detroit and motivates them with a salary rise, the Wage Motive of $5.00 for an eight hour working day.
During World War I he sails to Norway on the Oscar II Peace Ship, a pacifist initiative to end the war.
Constructs an industrial factory near the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan.
President Woodrow Wilson asks Henry Ford to run for the U.S. Senate as peace candidate, but loses his bid.
Son Edsel descends Henry as President of Ford Motor Company.
Receives Hitler-representative Kurt Ludecke, but refuses to contribute.
Creates the Tri-Motor airplane.
Production of Model T stops. Launches the second Ford Model A in the new River Rouge plant. Closes The Dearborn Independent newspaper of his aide Ernest G. Liebold, due to the content.
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, or Edison Institute opens in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, the largest indoor-outdoor history museum.
Designs a V-8 engine for Ford Model A.
Refuses to cooperate with unions in Ford factories.
Battle of the Overpass incident, Ford Motor Company security beat United Auto Workers leaders to keep them out of his plant.
Awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal of Nazi-Germany to foreigners.
Signs a contract with United Autoworkers Union.
Edsel Ford dies at the age of 49. Henry again Ford Motor Company president.
Grandson Henry Ford II new president.
Henry Ford dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 83 in Fair Lane, Dearborn. Buried in Detroit.
| Bibliography of Henry Fords Timeline 2 Ford, H (2009). My Life and Work. Autobiography. Aird, H (1986). Young Man With Ideas. Brinkley, D (2004). Wheels for the World. HF, His Company, and a Century of Progress.
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