12. Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal, September–October 1909, 15.
CHAPTER 24: IT’S NEVER OVER…
1. Quoted in Greenleaf, Monopoly on Wheels, 211.
2. Ford, My Life and Work, 62.
3. Greenleaf, Monopoly on Wheels, 215.
4. Barnard, Independent Man, 72.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., 74.
7. Reports were that Ford was “lying on the floor of his hotel room, suffering from lumbago.” Barnard, Independent Man, 74.
8. Ibid., 75.
9. Maines, Men, 17–18. Maines was a Flint newspaperman and confidant of many in the local elite. His father had made a fortune in real estate. While Durant may have been exaggerating—something that he was known to do—the meeting does seem to have taken place and Stettinius’s investment in General Motors is a matter of record.
10. Automobile Topics, April 9, 1910, 36.
11. MWo, April 21, 1910, 158.
12. See, for example, MA, March 1910, 85.
13. Sorenson, My Forty Years with Ford, 125.
14. Ibid., 128–29.
15. Greenleaf, Monopoly on Wheels, 223.
16. Quoted in Greenleaf, Monopoly on Wheels, 225.
17. Greenleaf, Monopoly on Wheels, 227.
18. Quoted in HA, January 11, 1911, 126.
19. MWo, January 12, 1911, 186.
20. HA, January 18, 1911, 145.
21. Sorenson, My Forty Years with Ford, 121.
EPILOGUE
1. Sorenson, My Forty Years with Ford, 135–36.
2. Barnard, Independent Man, 86–91.
3. Hyde, “The Dodge Brothers,” 49.
4. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., 170 N.W. 668 (Mich. 1919).
5. Quoted in Barnard, Independent Man, 99.
6. A recent biographer has theorized that Ford was having an affair with an assistant named Evangeline Côté, whom Wills also had his eye on—or she on him. But Wills had been gradually squeezed out of the spotlight for a decade and his departure was ensured.
7. Sorenson, My Forty Years with Ford, 312.
8. MWo, September 16, 1909, 1085. The ad appeared in other trade magazines as well.
9. NYT, January 18, 1922, 14.
10. Leonard, Tragedy of Henry Ford, 21. Leonard was a prolific science writer, social commentator, and critic. He reviewed Rachel Carson and Carl Sagan and published articles on everything from America’s Framers to culinary arts to the atomic tests at White Sands.
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