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Show TEN MILLION CARSPARADE They're off ten million Ford cars in one parade. With Ford No. 10,000,000 scheduled schedul-ed to cross the United States on the Lincoln Highway, a genius for figures fig-ures has worked out the matter of staging a parade of the entire 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 model T Fords. Here's the way he figures is : The road selected is 24,840 miles long circling the earth at the equator. equa-tor. He parks the Fords in one place at the side of the road, sets a pace of twenty miles an hour, for the parade and starts the cars at intervals of thirty seconds. Drivers are to have an eight hour day the same as that enjoyed by all Ford employees and are of course, to have Sundays, Christmas, New Years and Fourth of July off. It you were inclined to watch the parade and would remain until the last car passed, you'd have to stick at your place along the line for thirty-two and a half years. With all the Fords remaining in line, it wouldn't be long before you would find yourself in the center of a whirling corkscrew of cars, and as the genius has already figured fig-ured it, if you remained to the finish, fin-ish, and were observant, you probably prob-ably would have noticed that the first car passed you sixty-seven times before the last or ten millionth million-th car had left the parking ground. Furthermore, figuring Ford production pro-duction on the time basis of the last million, 65 million more Ford cars would have been built while were watching the parade. |