“We had two, three cops on the corner. A guy set up a sandwich stand. We’d call up Subway, Pizza Hut, and order a hundred and twenty pan pizzas. Truck drivers were setting up barbecue grills in the yard.” I look at Christine, and she’s laughing with Dave. It’s funny, for sure. But it’s also astonishing, when you think about it: eighty years after the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly line, Americans finally managed to clean up a backlog of junked vehicles—and they did so in part because steel mills in Bangkok needed raw materials to make new cars and refrigerators for people in
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