THE BOOK OF THE VIP
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Edison the Conqueror of ElectricityGoodyear looks down from his zeppelin
Chapter 22
An American capitalist named lHenry Ford will look out across the driveways of America and decide that there should be a horseless carriage in every one of them,
2mWith his name on it,
3Which is why he will figure out how to take steel and rubber and nhorsehair and glass and tin and copper and wood and a whole bunch of baling wire,
4And turn it into oan affordable motor-driven horseless carriage in practically no time flat,
5pUsing something called an assembly line,
6qWhich will pipe Ford motorcars into every home in America,
7In practically no time flat,
8Which is why Henry will become known throughout America as the Conqueror of aInternal Combustion Engines,
9Or General Motors for short.
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