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...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
...wonders of the East is Connecticut's $25,000,000 Merritt Parkway, 32 miles (two lanes each way) of satinsmooth express motor roads winding through manicured countryside back of coastal towns from Stratford (near Bridgeport) to the New York line. Another wonder of the East, but for the omission of a compulsory clause in a recent Connecticut law, would have been the water closets in all Connecticut public buildings. That such wonders should have had graft attached to them was last week cause for grief and headlines in the thrifty State of Connecticut...
Roads and Rails. Chief problem of the new "New China," almost completely cut off from the sea, is to keep open its routes to the outside world, to obtain supplies, trucks, motor parts, heavy machinery, oil, ammunition. While China's soldiers inched backward from the coastal provinces, China's coolies began the Herculean job of opening four main overland routes to western China...
...other three routes, none as heavily-used as the Silk Road, are: 1) the 1,800-mile Sian-Urga motor road, once a caravan trail across the limitless sands of the Gobi Desert, 2) the 1,350-mile rail and road route from Kunming down to British Burma, and 3) the newly-built Chinese railroad from Kunming to Laokai, which connects with the French Indo-China railroad. Hundreds of miles of other new roads connecting these main routes to many parts of the new "New China" have also been built...
President Edsel Ford explained his company's traditional aloofness with a 1903 anecdote: "My father inquired of one of the officers of the [A.M.A.] association if it were possible to join this association. ... He was told, I understand, he had best go out and manufacture some motor cars and gain a reputation and prove that he wasn't a fly-by-night...