Henry Ford Ii Speaks Out
Two years ago, at the age of twenty-eight, HENRY FORD II stepped into the presidency of the Ford Motor Company. The country was eager to know how he would meet the far-reaching responsibilities of a company by now employing 130,000 people and famous throughout the world as a symbol of American enterprise. The Atlantic asked permission to send TOM LILLEY to Dearborn so that Mr. Ford could answer informally some questions of industrial development, post-war reorganization, and personnel relations which find their parallel in every American plant, large or small. Mr. Lilley is Assistant Director of Research at the Harvard Business School.