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Article: Ford R. Bryan. Rouge: Pictured in Its Prime, Covering the Years 1917-1940.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- September 22, 2004
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Ford R. Bryan. Rouge: Pictured in Its Prime, Covering the Years 1917-1940. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 285. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $34.95.
In 1913 Henry Ford began to plan his most fantastic endeavor, the construction of the world's largest factory. On the eve of America's participation in the First World War, Ford broke ground for the plant near the Rouge River, just three miles from his boyhood home. Given an early boost from the federal government, which wanted the plant up and running to build the Navy's "Eagle" submarine chasers, the River Rouge Plant (which was renamed the Fordson Plant in 1926 and in 1929 rechristened the Rouge ...