The United States government agreed on Friday to pay Ford Motor Co. $10.84 million in order to settle a 7-year-old lawsuit over the cleanup of the automaker's Rouge Complex near Detroit during both World Wars.
The 2,000-acre estate was bought in 1915 by Henry Ford where, among other models, he manufactured the iconic Model T. The National Park Service has since named it “the world’s most famous auto plant”. During World War I, the US government used it to build naval ships, an activity that was joined by the manufacturing of aircraft engines in World War II. In peacetime, Ford used it for auto and steel production.
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