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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Henry Ford"”.
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The Henry Ford : sustaining Henry Ford's philanthropic legacy
… the Edison Institute (presently known as The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan) survived internal and external challenges through the evolution of the Ford family’s leadership and the organization’s funding strategy. Following Henry Ford’s death, the museum complex relied upon the Ford …
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Starting Ireland on the Road to Industry: Henry Ford in Cork
Henry Ford’s innovations revolutionised personal transport and manufacturing processes in the early twentieth century. Following his accomplishments in the United States, Ford, the son of an immigrant Irishman, conscious of Ireland’s backwardness, was keen to assist with the industrial development …
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Mythologies of an American everyday landscape : Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn
Ford purchased property in 1923 in Sudbury, Massachusetts in order to preserve an historic inn associated with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Over the next twenty years, his mission expanded to create an idealized New England landscape and a way of living on the land representative of an …
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Henry Ford's anti-Semitism: A rhetorical analysis of the "paranoid" style
The life and rhetoric of Henry Ford was examined in this study in order to gain an understanding why, and how, he propagated the longest running anti-Semitic campaign in history. A synergy of two existing theories in communication, Hofstadter (1966) and Smith (1977) provided the appropriate …
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The relationship between body mass index and breast cancer recurrence/progression and breast cancer-specific death
… cohort of906 breast cancer patients diagnosed at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit (1985-1990) were studied. The median follow-up was 10 years. Multivariate logistic regression was used to model breast cancer recurrence/progression and breast cancer-specific death. Restricted cubic splines were …
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… movements, and the scientific rationalism of Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor—that systematically excised forms of difference in the modern scene. In an increasingly standardized U.S., then, forms of the irregular and unsightly disordered this national agenda, termed the American …
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Assembly Line Americans: Labor, Language, and Literacy at Ford Motors
… Line Americans: Labor, Language, and Literacy at Ford Motors explores the significance of Henry Ford’s and Ford Motor’s industrial education project, which impacted the working-class life and educational development of migrants and US citizens alike. Ford’s industrial education project emerged in …
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Chemistry in a new key: Surplus, soy, and the history of sustainable enterprise in the United States, 1934-1950
… of this hard-to-pronounce neologism, automaker Henry Ford and soil scientist George Washington Carver united in unlikely friendship and a quest to find new industrial applications for already existing plants, especially the soybean. Historicizing the futures that chemurgy’s allies, especially …
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The neuropsychological endophenotype of specific language impairments and autism spectrum disorders: Category or continuum?
… who presented for clinical evaluation at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit were examined by retrospective chart review.</p> <p>Cognitive data revealed that ASD probands performed more poorly on tests of perceptual-motor functioning and had higher rates of pragmatic language deficits than …
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Development Of The Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Risk Model For Emergency Room Resident Training
… University Human Investigation Committee and Henry Ford Internal Review expedited review approval was obtained.</p> <p>Eligible cases were patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of acute decompensated heart failure for the 2014 year. Variables collected were identified based on review …
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‘On Your Marks, Get Set, Go!’ The Development of the Sport and Physical Activity Value (S&PAVAL) Model for use in the Leisure Industry
… status-quo is not therefore acceptable, as Henry Ford once said ‘if we keep on doing what we have always done, we will always get what we have always got’. It is therefore essential that new thinking, from a different perspective is needed to readdress the general participation apathy and …
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Rethinking the industrial landscape : the future of the Ford Rouge complex
… multidisciplinary reconstruction planning is the Ford Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. The Rouge Complex has served for its 75 years as the center piece of the regional automotive economy in Southeastern Michigan and the automotive manufacturing in the country as a whole. From its modest …