At the rate of 100,000 a day, visitors from all over the Midwest were packing into Detroit's chromium-pillared Convention Hall last week. There was an automobile assembly line. Tight-rope walkers and acrobats performed from time to time. More than 175 companies allied to the automobile business had displays. There was a series of automobiles beginning with a steam-driven model of 1863 and ending with a super-streamlined car by Briggs Manufacturing Co. which, lacking running boards, comfortably accommodated three people on its wide front seat. Lean old Henry Ford, who never exhibits his cars...
Nation: Ford Is Out
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