Automobile Tycoon
The first Model-T cost $825, which is $25,480 today. But Ford was dedicated to producing an automobile that could be afforded by everyone. Each year, the price of the car dropped, and by the 1920s, most Americans had learned to drive on the Model T. Not only was Ford, a great engineer, but he was a good marketer as well.
Automobile Tycoon
The same day that the last Model T ceremoniously rolled off the assembly line, Ford announced that his company was soon going to produce a brand new automobile: the Model A. Ford was very involved with the engine design, as well as other mechanical necessities. However, according to Ford manager Charles Sorensen, Ford had little former mechanical engineering training.
Ford was all about increasing productivity, but he believed that the unions wanted to restrict it in at attempt to foster employment. The automobile tycoon believed that this was self-defeating. Ford went on to promote Harry Bennett, a former Navy boxer, to lead the Service Department. More often than not, Bennett would use intimidation tactics to stop union organizing.
Ford was the last automobile company in Detroit to recognize the UAW, despite pressure from the rest of the industry, as well as the US government. He even threatened to close down the company because of how much he despised the unions. According to Sorensen, his wife threatened to leave him if he chose to disassemble the company because of all the chaos it would cause.
And the stamp comes in ways subtle -- and not so subtle. To me, the most obvious and whimsical example of Harrah, the legendary casino tycoon who died in 1978 at age 67, is the Jerrari -- a combination Ferrari and Jeep Wagoneer. It's on display in a corridor between some of the museum's galleries.
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In an earlier interview with Yonhap News Agency, Walid Phares, a foreign policy advisor to Trump, said the real estate tycoon, if elected, may want to "go back to ground zero" on all FTAs the U.S. has signed, including the KORUS FTA, suggesting a Trump administration may demand renegotiation of all existing FTAs.
A recent report from a private think tank, the Korea Economic Research Institute, even suggested the country's automobile industry may suffer a $13.3 billion cut in shipments to the U.S. over the next five years should Trump become the chief executive of the world's largest market.
"A rise in trade protectionist measures will inevitably affect the country's automobile exports to the U.S. The only way for local manufacturers to sustain their U.S. sales will be to improve their products," an official from the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association said.
Hiroto Saikawa, tipped to replace disgraced Carlos Ghosn as Nissan chairman, was long considered one of "Ghosn's children", a loyalist to the powerful tycoon who owed him everything -- but then oversaw his downfall. 041b061a72