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One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from nazi germany, where hitler held him in veneration, henry ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that aldous huxley, in his brave new world, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into bf and af-before ford and after ford.
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One Of The Most Intensely Unlikeable Figures

Stephen Fry
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from nazi germany, where hitler held him in veneration, henry ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that aldous huxley, in his brave new world, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into bf and af-before ford and after ford.
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