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...After all," said Wilson, "we built nearly 8,000,000 motor vehicles in 1950, and our streets are filled with shiny new cars. Barring all-out war, we still will be producing more cars in 1951 than we turned out in 1948-and that is a lot of cars.' And, barring World War III, the cuts will only be temporary. Inside of three years, he said, the U.S. will have superimposed on its 'economy a $150 billion armament program, but it will scarcely feel the effects in the supply of civilian goods...
...whit abashed by such rebuffs, Little Orvie threatened to sue anyone who signed a petition against him. But beyond that, Orvie betrayed little anxiety, even though the recall movement had been touched off by one of his own awful political blunders. He had jealously refused to let the Ford Motor Co. (which employs a fourth of Dearborn's population) donate a $4,500,000 hospital to the city presumably because Ford had insisted on making its gift through the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund instead of letting Little Orvie handle matters directly...
Hoyt was barely breathing when the bulky equipment reached the hospital. They put him in the machine, started the motor, and in a few minutes, Hoyt was breathing regularly. Today he is alive and well...
...Packard Motor Car Co. got a $20 million contract to make diesel engines (135 h.p. to 800 h.p.) for the Navy...
Gradually, the planes improved. Ford's famed Tri-Motor appeared with a cabin with room for 16. In 1929 came the crate-like, twin-engine Curtiss Condor, a 21-place goliath, followed in a few years by Douglas' famed...