Sublime

Occasionally Ivar would ask a question about IT&T and one of the men from the other side would leave the room for an hour to get an answer. But when someone from IT&T asked a question, Ivar always stayed put and answered from memory.

Because the concern hadn’t very strong financial backing, Ford Motor Company agreed to underwrite the new tools and dies necessary for the work. This was common practice with us when suppliers ran into financial trouble when expanding their facilities enough to meet our needs.

There was an irony in the inventor of the assembly line being himself outorganized. As one historian, Thomas McCraw, puts it, “What Ford did for physical machines, Sloan did for human beings.”

Mr. Chrysler was a man of high ambition and imagination. He was a practical man with broad capabilities; his genius I think was in the organization of automobile production. Like Mr. Nash, he recognized the opportunity offered by the young and promising automobile business. They both were true leaders of its early development and became heads of gr