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...shone warm and bright. It looked like another great day for the war-fat Gulf port town of Texas City, Tex.-"The Port of Opportunity." Stores were busy, prosperous people "howdy'd" one another in the streets. Down along the waterfront, $125 million worth of oil refineries, tin smelters and chemical plants labored mightily to assure Texas City's future. Down there too was the only small blot on the day-the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and docked some 700 ft. from the great Monsanto Chemical Co. plant, was afire...
...about the gravedigger who was asked why he was digging such an enormous hole. "They're going to bury this fellow with his Ford," the gravedigger explained. "He said it had pulled him out of every other hole, it would pull him out of this one." The Tin Lizzie rattled and banged across the country. It had to have roads. Roads were built. It had to have gas. Gas pumps sprouted. It paid taxes. It made jobs. It transformed a nation...
...Ancient. When World War II came he was an old man. He was as tough as his Tin Lizzie. Theoretically he had retired and handed the business over to his only, beloved son, Edsel. But he was still the real boss, striding along the great assembly lines, sitting, birdlike and domineering, among the empire's reverent executives. Once again he cried out against the stupidity of war. He was an America Firster. But when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, he turned his Rouge plant into an arsenal. He put his company on a seven-day week...
...Swede. But he will likely find a credit account in heaven for the magnificence of his achievements." In Paris, the Socialists were harder on him. Said Pierre Mignot, a biology teacher: "His Taylor* system marks the beginning of modern slavery." Paris youngsters (who belong to the jeep, not the tin-Lizzie era) did not even know his name, and many an oldster shuddered at it. Said grey-haired Gaston, headwaiter at Lavrue's: " Voyez-vous, Monsieur Ford gave us speed. In the old days, Parisians drove their four-in-hands around the boulevards at a civilized ten kilometers...
Friendly, 42-year-old Domkapitular Roth holds regular services in Dachau's 1,500-seat Catholic church, which was built by volunteer SS prisoners and is equipped with an organ whose pipes are made of U.S. Army tin cans. Says Father Roth...