actually designed by albert con, the famous architect to design the number four buildings back in dearborn and detroit. ford a central square that had sidewalks and indoor plumbing, manicured lawns, movie theaters, perfume shops, swimming pools, tennis courts and a golf course and of course model ts and model a's rolling down its paved streets. in many ways it is good to think what is great about this story about fordlandia, it is an epic clash of opposites, to the irrepressible phenomenon. on the one hand there is henry ford, the man to revolutionized industrial capitalism by reducing human motion to its simplest possible component, to produce a series of identical parts, the first and distinguishable from the million. ford once calculated that it took 7,882 distinct motions to make a model t, so kind of a great quote. he doesn't just thought there in calculating 7,882. 949 of them by strong able-bodied men, 670 i legless men, 2,637 by one legged men, to buy armless men and 715 by one-armed men, and ten by blind men. that doesn't quite add up to 7,882 so i'm not sure what the differences,

decided discussion is a better part of valor and he was a great big fat guy and he climbed into his dearborn and summoned his lagoons than one out to albuquerque. and the anglo is assumed that the mexicans were docile people and they welcome to this innovation but in fact, it was quite the opposite. they resented it. they were seeing anger and it got worse and worse and worse. they had lived enough of a life under the words to spoke spanish and it was intolerable and then. what is worse the troops were paraded around the santa fe and were as bad as any other volunteers in the service. remember what the problem is with the state volunteer regiments officers are politicians are back home what kind of discipline we you have in that situation? the second two missouri calgary, whether colonel sterling price was a politician who wanted his men for governor and automate with the early version of santa fe and made himself a fairly wealthy. whereas the man just turned santa fe into a cesspool. what is great about this it i like i am exaggerating but three misery newspapers had correspondence they wer

ashford stopped bundling the $29 million highate regency dearborn debt giving it back to the ender. sellcore didn't repay the maturity from the boca raton embassy suites and wilmington doubletree. and morgan hotel say they intend to return at least one asset. since all that eases the companies' losses, are they now a buy? >> when you see the moving average of revenue per available room across the zero line, so in other words, you start seeing same-store revenue gains rather than losses, that's the time to look to invest in hotel stocks. and we think that revenue term probably doesn't come until late next year. >> so you have to ask what about the banks who get all these properties back? well, it's estimated they're going to be losing hundreds of billions on these assets. who's going to be losing it? well, the equity holders, the banks, but mostly the cmbs holders. for more on this go to the blog, realtycheck.cnbc.com. memsa? >> diana, you make it sound so easy but it's got to be harder for the companies to return these properties. >> it is so wildly complicated given the number of i

ford sales chief george pipas from the ford headquarters in dearborn, there you have it, larry. his belief that, yeah, there's incremental effective for cash for clunkers, but they believe there's a churning of the market going on. >> i'm all for the forward churn. i'm just not for sprinkle helicopter money on everybody to buy cash for clunkers. >>> the strong sales numbers at ford helping to push stocks higher, not hurting sentiments, some better than expected manufacturing data. the ism was a mini blowout, highest level in a year, showing contraction slowing in july, but look at the real story with this is underneath the headline number, which is almost 49, new orders up -- new orders at 55, up from 49, well above expectations. production rising by six or seven points by 52 1/2 to almost 58, that is a surprisingly strong manufacturing number. and that is one reason why the indexes are up nicely.y. now the dow is up 85 and change, almost at 1% gain, the s&p is up 10, now it's up 10 points and the nasdaq was up 16. let's see, the naz is up, 15.6 points. this ism number, trish, i

george pipas, in charge of sales for ford, he joins us live from ford headquarters in dearborn, michigan. you heard the question from melissa. when you look at your monthly sales increase going up a couple of percent points, how much of that do you atut