52 Miracles Ahead! 



and Ford now make jeeps for the Army, which considers 

 them our main contribution to mobile warfare. The Russians, 

 who know a thing or two about fighting in all sorts of 

 weather, agree that the jeep is no "summer soldier." 



No one proposes that the jeep replace the passenger auto- 

 mobile, but Don E. Weaver, editor of the Fort Worth Press, 

 believes the jeep will be kept busy when the war ends. 



"After the Civil War," he wrote, "the slogan was '40 acres 

 and a mule.' Well, why not 40 acres and a jeep? The Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has tried them out and finds that they 

 can pull a plow, cultivator, or mower as well as a tractor. 

 And you can unhitch the plow, load up the wife and kids, 

 and go to town in the jeep on Saturday nights. 



"The farmer lost the old family horse when he got a flivver 

 and a tractor. The flivver couldn't work the fields and he 

 couldn't go to town in the tractor. The jeep, bless its heart, 

 can do both. 



"If you're not interested in farming 40 acres with a jeep, 

 or in using one to herd cattle or ride fences on your ranch, 

 maybe you would like to take a two-week vacation rough- 

 ing it. The modern auto is swell, but it can't be everything. 

 It has been refined for superluxurious city use. The jeep is as 

 outdoors as a hunting dog." 



The Plastic Car 



Several materials may be expected to compete for the honor 

 of forming the body of your postwar car. Plastics made of 

 soy beans, resins, grains, petroleum, and other unlikely 

 sounding products have a lot to recommend them. Robert A. 

 Boyer, until recently a research engineer for Henry Ford, has 

 built an all-plastic car body which is eight hundred pounds 

 lighter than the standard model and has ten times the impact 

 strength of steel. Boyer agrees that a plastic car may not be a 



