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The Henry Ford II World Center, also commonly known as the Ford World Headquarters and popularly known as the Glass House, [1] [2] is the administrative headquarters for Ford Motor Company, a 12-story, glass-faced office building [3] designed to accommodate a staff of approximately 3,000. The building is located at 1 American Road at Michigan ...
Richard, who as president of UAW Local 600 in Dearborn represents approximately 9,000 Ford employees, has been with Ford for 47 years. He began as an assembler on the line at Dearborn Assembly in ...
December 14, 1976. The Ford River Rouge complex (commonly known as the Rouge complex, River Rouge, or The Rouge) is a Ford Motor Company automobile factory complex located in Dearborn, Michigan, along the River Rouge, upstream from its confluence with the Detroit River at Zug Island. Construction began in 1917, and when it was completed in 1928 ...
The Ford Rotunda was a tourist attraction that was originally located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, and later was relocated to Dearborn, Michigan. It was among the most popular tourist destinations in the United States, receiving more visits in the 1950s than the Statue of Liberty. [1] It was destroyed by a fire on November 9, 1962.
Ford is scaling back its F-150 Lightning production again, cutting two-thirds of employees who assemble the trucks at its plant in Dearborn, Mich. Ford bet big on the F-150 Lightning after its ...
Ford Hunger March. / 42.3076; -83.1558. The Ford Hunger March, sometimes called the Ford Massacre, was a demonstration on March 7, 1932 in the United States by unemployed auto workers in Detroit, Michigan, which took place during the height of the Great Depression. The march started in Detroit and ended in Dearborn, Michigan, in a confrontation ...
Established in 1949 [87] by Henry Ford II, [citation needed] the organization is a nonprofit corporate foundation [88] financed by contributions from Ford Motor Company. In 2017, it contributed $63 million [89] to various causes [86] with a focus on education, driving safely and community building.
The Battle of the Overpass was an attack by Ford Motor Company against the United Auto Workers (UAW) on May 26, 1937, at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.The UAW had recently organized workers at Ford's competitors, and planned to hand out leaflets at an overpass leading to the plant's main gate in view of many of the 90,000 employees.