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THOMAS EDISON, one of Henry Ford's best friends, once said that Ford's foresight "is so long, it sags in the middle." Ford's soybean experimentation was a good example of this. By 1941, the Rouge plant was processing 1,600 bushels of soybeans a day. The homely beans supplied the base for all kinds of inventive uses. Enamel for paints and fluid for shock absorbers came from soybean oil, for example. In time, more than two bushels of soybeans went into each Ford auto. Ford's soybean program also made the first commercially acceptable soy milk, which eventually was used to make Presto Whip -- an all-vegetable whipping cream.

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