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Focuses on the condition of the automobile industry in Detroit, Michigan in 1944. Presence of air-conditioned Packard automobiles; Decision of automobile dealers to concentrate on car servicing after World War II; Conversion of 17,909 machine tools of Chrysler Corp. from the 20,665 tools it owns from some automobile-line function into some war-work operation.

The article offers an anecdote about a newspaperman from Cleveland, Ohio, named William Ganson Rose, who was invited to speak in a Detroit Advertising Club in Michigan. The club's president was bragging about their automobile industry, which has replaced horses. For the sake of the children, Detroit has retained one horse in the zoo. He then introduced Rose by saying that Cleveland residents do not have that same problem. Rose agreed by saying they Cleveland, indeed, is not a one-horse town.