Henry Ford Quotes
The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.
Ford, Henry, and Samuel Crowther. Today and Tomorrow. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
Prior to Baxter the issues in prosecuting an anti-trust case were whether or not the company met the size or market share criterion for application of the anti-trust law and whether the company had committed any of the prohibited acts. Baxter added another hurdle. Namely, that the prosecution must make economic sense for the company, the consumer and/or the nation. Many illegal, immoral and unfair antitrust practices were not prosecuted if there was no economic benefit to doing so. Critics of the new policy argued that nowhere in the language of the anti-trust legislation that prosecution should not take place in the absence of demonstrable economic benefit.
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, anti-Semite, and founder of the Ford Motor Company and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, he converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into an accessible conveyance that profoundly impacted the landscape of the 20th century.