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Ford was still making wood propellers for the trimotor airplanes in the 1940’s, long after the trimotor plane was gone. They built the propellers and sent them to a warehouse, never to be used or seen again. There was no need for the propellers, but no one in that vast company told the propeller division. That was one of the price tags attached to being so big. No one really knew enough about the place.

Excerpted from Pg 24-25 of ‘Lessons from the heartland of American Business’ by Gerald Greenwald