{"id":4034,"date":"2011-07-15T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2011-07-15T20:38:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T02:38:15","slug":"clash-of-the-titans-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4034","title":{"rendered":"Clash of the Titans, Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/07\/15\/3224212\/clash-of-the-titans-conclusion.html\">Ed Wallace:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the first years of the Ford Motor Company, James Couzens had been more responsible than even Henry himself for its success. But Ford took a more active role in his company after the Model T debuted; and Couzens, who hated sharing power as much as Ford did, started looking for other outlets for his talent. His last great contribution to Ford was instituting the $5 workday in early 1914 &#8211; which kicked off America&#8217;s modern middle class.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ford&#8217;s doubling the wages of its workforce was not taken well by other industrialists. The New York Times wrote that Ford&#8217;s largesse would create serious disturbances in America. The Wall Street Journal accused the company of &#8220;economic blunders, if not crimes;&#8221; while the president of Pittsburgh Plate Glass said, &#8220;This would mean the ruin of all business in this country. Ford himself will surely find that he cannot afford to pay $5 a day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Couzens knew that all of these assertions were flat-out wrong. He&#8217;d run the numbers and predicted that the Ford Motor Company would make more money than ever. And it did.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Wallace: In the first years of the Ford Motor Company, James Couzens had been more responsible than even Henry himself for its success. But Ford took a more active role in his company after the Model T debuted; and Couzens, who hated sharing power as much as Ford did, started looking for other outlets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}