Road of Tomorrow details "In black and white

"In black and white

"I only wish I could have stayed up there an hour

"Backroom deals and delegate swapping secured the nomination for Ford but left him bruised going into the general election

as they put it

Road of Tomorrow details "In black and whiteRCA introduced television at the 1939 World's Fair. General Motors built its Futurama. But Ford's "Road of Tomorrow," shown here at the Ford Pavilion in Flushing Meadows, featured a cork and rubber surface and ramps that were stacked like platters of spinning records. Here, drivers would take fair visitors on an endless figure eight track to "symbolize the advances America may expect in transportation." The Times wrote that the model highway would