Paul, Minnesota. He had a project called Ford Industry Email List Estates, in which he would buy up properties and rehab them for other purposes. In 1931, he bought the 18th-century manor of Boreham House in Essex, England, and the Industry Email List surrounding 2,000 acres of land. He never lived there but set up Boreham House as an Institute of Agricultural Engineering to train men and women in new technologies. Another Ford Estates project Industry Email List was cooperative farming properties in several rural areas in the U.S. and U.K., where people lived in cottages and raised crops and animals. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Ford became one of the major U.S.
Military contractors, supplying Industry Email List airplanes, engines, jeeps, and tanks throughout World War II. Later in Life and Death When Ford’s son Industry Email List Edsel, then president of Ford Motor Company, died of cancer in May 1943, the elderly and ailing Henry Ford decided to reassume the presidency. Ford, now nearly 80 years old, had already suffered Industry Email List several possible heart attacks or strokes and was described as having become mentally unstable, unpredictable, suspicious, and generally not fit to lead the company.
However, having had de facto control of the Industry Email List company for the last 20 years, Ford convinced the board of directors to elect him. With Ford serving until the end of World War II, Ford Motor Company declined sharply, losing more Industry Email List than $10 million a month—nearly $150 million today. Mourners Filing Past Henry Ford Industry Email List in a Casket (Original Caption) All who loved Henry Ford, humble folk, his workmen and personalities, file past the bier, where the great industrialist's body lies in state, at the Greenfield Village, here in Dearborn.