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militarism and destroy forever those who want to keep it alive forever.
[[red underline]] Mayo, [[/red underline]] his manager tells me Ford offered to the Government to build [[red underline]] 1000 [[/red underline]] ships [[red underline]] at his own risk and let [[/red underline]] the Government decide whether we wanted them or not.  But [[red underline]] his offer [[/red underline]] was [[red underline]] refused [[/red underline]] and this first order was reduced to [[red underline]] 100 [[/red underline]] Eagles of 200 feet length.  I imagine that Admiral [[red underline]] Taylor [[/red underline]] wanted to limit the experiment to 100 and not to tie himself too much to this new type of ship before it had been able to show its possibilities or its defects.
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believe that a [[red underline]] few more knots [[/red underline]] per hour seem [[red underline]] indispensable. [[/red underline]]  I fear that [[red underline]] Germany will [[/red underline]] build [[red underline]] new subs [[/red underline]] which can [[red underline]] outrun these chasers. [[/red underline]]
Henry Ford conducted us then to his new plant where he makes [[red underline]] agricultural tractors [[/red underline]] which are sold at [[red underline]] $800 [[/red underline]] a piece.  A wonderful piece of machine which seems to be able to withstand any rough usage.  Turns out about as fast as he used to manufacture his little cars before his production became 1000-2000 and 3000 a day.
Here is a man of enterprise, an [[red underline]] optimist and a worker [[/red underline]] imbued of the usefulness of his minion who [[strikethrough]] now [[/strikethrough]] a few [[red underline]] years ago was unknown [[/red underline]] then was the [[red underline]] butt [[/red underline]] of ridicule of his prosperous rival manu-