Henry Ford was a believer in verticle integration. His belief was that his company should be completely independent and have complete control of all the resouces necessary to produce the final product, including iron copper and coal mines, steel foundries and mills, forests and lumber mills and even his own power generating plant. He funded research to use soy products to replace plastics. When the company's stock went public, his dream was lost. Had his vision been maintained, Ford vehicles would definitely be American made.