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 Yet no one who knew exactly what was happening in the Judson-Morris Works could accuse him of that for one minute, because, at a time when his whole works were shut down except the assembling and shipping departments, he was stubbornly going on with the enlargement of the factory. Seven thousand men out. Department after department empty and silent as a tomb, but walls still lengthening, tons and tons of steel going in, yards and yards of concrete being poured every day.

"He's an idiot and a fool!" growled one of Ford's men whom some business had brought into the plant.

"Or he's the greatest wizard of them all!" chuckled John Williams.