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The article discusses a survey of 13 key U.S. cities by the periodical reveals that the big car makers still have a long way to go before the work through their backlogs. According to the poll, in spite of production hike, it takes from three months to one year to get popular models. Dealers for the Big Three, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, cited the longest waiting periods and the fewest promises. A sample of the replies from dealers in principal cities, including New York City, Boston in Massachusetts, and Atlanta in Georgia, is presented.

Focuses on the socio-economic conditions in the world. Invalidation of the New York State Minimum Wage Law for women by the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Owen J. Roberts casted his vote against it; Victory of Spanish Government over Italian divisions on the Guadalajara front, which sowed the seeds of international war; Development of the crisis between the Catholic Church and dictator Adolf Hitler regime in Germany; Chances for ratification of the child-labor amendment seem smaller than ever as it has been rejected by the legislatures of Nebraska and Connecticut; Decision of Indian nationalists to boycott the new Constitution by not undertaking the responsibility of setting up provincial governments; Eruption of problems as the United States granted independence to the Philippines; Criticism of the press as it greeted the activities of groups favoring the Spanish loyalists; Examination of an airplane accident that happened in the U.S.; Victory registered by prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in his series of cases against New York City racketeers; Description of operas as uneconomical from the perspective of any nation's economy; Statistics charted out by the Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts showing a marked shift in the field of major interest of students.

Focuses on the deterioration in the burgeoning art of architecture in the United States with emphasis on examples cited from various buildings. Accentuation of the vertical lines: bands of brown and black brick connecting the windows, alternating with bands of white brick, for the solid wall in the case of the Daily News Building in New York; Description of Boston, Massachusetts that will soon have the distinction of possessing two modern stations, for though the exterior of the South Station remains unchanged, the old smoke hall-- or train shed--has been supplanted by covered platforms which permit the smoke to escape and shelter only the passengers; Examination of the Bonwit Teller Building that reveals that modern architecture is no more dependent upon the skyscraper for its success than it is dependent on the subway; Footsteps left by the Squibb building in the sand of modernism in terms of color; Definition of modernism in the context of culture.

The article offers information on the redevelopment plans in the U.S., with the help of suggestions by Edward J. Logue, administrator of the Boston Redevelopment Authority. It is stated that Logue's use of power is one of his administrative techniques to carry out the redevelopment works successfully, the way he did in Boston, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut. Reportedly, Logue will be helping in the redevelopment project in New York City.