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Question: I need some facts about Henry Ford.?

I need just a couple more personal facts on Henry Ford. can i please help and if u could give me the website u got it from thank you

Answer: 1. On his 78th birthday, the prestigious German Grand Service Cross of the Golden Eagle was presented to Henry Ford, the famous and fabulously wealthy American car manufacturer, by a German diplomat in the USA on July 30, 1938, on behalf of Adolf Hitler himself. Ford is actually the only American that Hitler even mentions in his book ‘Mein Kampf’. In his book, ‘Entnazifizierung in Bayern’ the German author, Niethammer, suggests that the “failure” of the Americans to destroy the Ford car plant (Ford Werke) outside Cologne, was all a part of a “capitalist plot” of some kind. Many other well-researched authors have since drawn exactly the same conclusion. By 1941, the Ford Werke plant became one of the largest suppliers of military vehicles to the German Army. In April, 1939, Ford Werke presented Hitler with a birthday gift of 35,000 Reichmarks.

2. A little known fact about barbecue grilling is that Henry Ford invented the briquette in 1920. E.G. Kingsford bought the rights, and, well, you know the rest of the story from there!

3. Henry Ford had Thomas Edison’s dying breath preserved. It is in an empty glass bottle, one of three which was in the room at the time Edison died. Ford believed it contained Edison’s dying breath. It is on display at his museum in Michigan

More students than ever before are attending Henry Ford Community College

Enrollment for the winter semester, which began Jan. 11, set a new record for HFCC enrollment, with 18,737 students enrolled, up 12 percent from last winter. Last winter, 16,819 students were enrolled in credit classes. This number surpasses the fall 2009 semester enrollment, which traditionally has higher enrollment numbers than the winter semester.

Henry and Clara Ford at 58 Bagley Avenue (1946)