The Model T, first produced in 1908, kept the same design until the last one -- number 15,000,000 -- rolled off the line in 1927 ... Ford was inspired by the meat-packing houses of Chicago ...

Workers at Minnesota meat ... the line speeds. Lori Stevermer, past president of the National Pork Producers Council’s board of directors, welcomes the USDA plan. She said it allows packing ...