The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site -- transforming ore and rubber into finished cars (see box, p.122).
When I realized on Thursday that my 8:00 a.m. flight on Friday had been canceled and I was re-booked on a 5:15 p.m. flight, I finished the meeting I was in, ran upstairs to my hotel room, hopped online and called United.