But America had given the world a new form of transportation, trains that run without rails and with-out coal.

Motor-trucks, driven by gasoline, carried the troops and munitions to Verdun.

And so, after all, the genius of America was there smiting the crown prince to his ruin long before the first American doughboy could set foot in France.
For years the names of oil king and iron master have been a hissing and a byword among the hot-heads in America.

Yet oil king and iron master filled a world with motor lorries.

The blessings these have brought to every man are more than he can measure.