A young man from the country called on Henry Ford in his workshops, and the manufacturer, not knowing exactly what to show him, picked up a magnet and said: “This magnet will draw three pounds of iron from a distance of 2i-ft. There is no natural object on the face 6f the earth with more power.” “I am not so sure,’ said the countryman. “ I know a natural object, wrapped in muslin and frills, that draws mo over live miles of ploughed fields every Sunday afternoon,’
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Evening Star, Issue 20993, 6 January 1932, Page 2
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