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Show WAR PRICES HIT THE FORD FACTORY Henry Adds Millions to National Wealth by Jumping Figures on Two Models. What at. first seemed to be a rather startlins announcement came to hand the other day. when Henry Ford was said to have' raised the price of Ford touring cars and roadsters. But the, announcement is not so startling, alter all. The big Ford company could not keep up the value of the car and at the same time sell it at the old prb-e. The advance in all manner of auto materials, ma-terials, shortage and. high price of labor, government demands on the plant, thus limitiut: the output, nil combined com-bined to make the price raise inevitable. inev-itable. Kvery new Ford touring car and roadster is now worth .r"."1 more than it was a few days ago. This applies as well to everv used Ford touring car in the world. They are all worth ,!I0 more todxv. Think what this means! There are 2,KD0,Oi)0 Fords in the United States. At an advain-o of !") e.'M-h, the new price represents an added wealth in the land of l,'"0O.OO0. rtah tains somewhat some-what by this new price fixing. There, are SOUU Ford cars in this state; at an advance of .00 each, just. $7-0,000 has been added to the material wealth of the Fonl car owners. This news will elate quite a few Ford owners in Salt Lake. |