Costs included are for purchase (including land), operation, maintenance, and debt service. 2 Collection includes pick up, transfer, and transport to final disposal site for residential and non-residential waste. 3 Composting excludes sale of finished compost (which ranges from $0 to $100/ton).
Struck a cruel blow shortly before his eightieth birthday by the death of his only son, Edsel Ford, on May 26, 1943, Mr. Ford unfalteringly returned to the presidency of the Ford Motor Company, which he had yielded to his son twenty-four years previously.
Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947, at the age of eighty-three, having outlived the Model T by nearly twenty years. A century has passed since he took the first car he built for a ride. The world remains in large part the one set into motion by Henry Ford: a world in which cars are for everyone.