He built the finest American car of its time—huge and powerful and smooth as silk—using a technology that almost every other automaker had abandoned. If he hadn’t been such a perfectionist, we might be driving steam cars to this day.
Seventy years have passed since the catastrophic failure of the St. Francis Dam killed more than 500 people. But experts are still arguing about why it happened—and who should be blamed.
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