On this day: March 14

POSTED: 11:54 AM PST Mar 08, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Mar 13, 2013 

America's first town hall meeting is held, Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin, Pan Am is incorporated, and JFK's body is moved to a permanent memorial, all on this day.

OTD March 14 - Henry Ford
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Ford Motor Company

1914: Henry Ford announces a new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12 and a half hours to 93 minutes.

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